47 Quotes by Tom Bissell

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

Here's what I just realized: A world in which sport at its best is not seen as some kind of art is a world that doesn't deserve any art.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I'm an Old Media guy. I don't have a website; I don't Twitter. I love magazines, yet I love video games. It's a strange disconnect.

The average action game doesn't much traffic in thematic grandiosity, but the BioShock games are different.

The kinds of games I'm most interested in are narrative games.

The underwater businessman philosopher Andrew Ryan was BioShock's unforgettable villain.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.