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> [We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates because of video games.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/we-are-no-longer-worried-that-children-are-missing-school-because-of/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

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## More by Tom Bissell

> [To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/to-create-anything-whether-a-short-story-or-a-magazine-profile-or-a/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“Final Fantasy VII awoke American gaming to the possibilities of narrative dynamism and the importance of relatively developed characters—no small inspiration to take from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/final-fantasy-vii-awoke-american-gaming-to-the-possibilities-of/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/you-have-agency-yes-but-what-of-it-it-is-just-a-game-but-when-a-game/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“There are not many mediums whose Dantes and Homers one can ring up and talk to. With games, one can.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/there-are-not-many-mediums-whose-dantes-and-homers-one-can-ring-up/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/the-world-finally-is-no-longer-large-and-to-ignore-it-likely-requires/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“This is one of the most suspect things about the game form: A game with an involving story and poor gameplay cannot be considered…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/this-is-one-of-the-most-suspect-things-about-the-game-form-a-game/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they are murdering their classmates…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/we-are-no-longer-worried-that-children-are-missing-school-because-of/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/to-create-anything-is-to-believe-if-only-momentarily-you-are-capable/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/charyn-like-nabokov-is-that-most-fiendish-sort-of-writer-so-seductive/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/hocking-was-slender-in-the-way-that-writers-and-musicians-are/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“Games such as Mass Effect allow the gamer a freedom of decision that can be evilly enlivening or nobly self-congratulating, but these games become…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/games-such-as-mass-effect-allow-the-gamer-a-freedom-of-decision-that/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“And so, my beloved Kermit, my dear little Hussein, at the moment America changed forever, your father was wandering an ICBM-denuded watseland, nervously monitoring…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/and-so-my-beloved-kermit-my-dear-little-hussein-at-the-moment-america/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/girlfriends-indeed-the-anti-video-game/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [“The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/the-impulse-to-explain-is-the-achilles-heel-of-all-genre-work-and-the/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

> [Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-bissell/fun-is-not-the-same-thing-as-fulfillment/)

[Tom Bissell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-bissell/)

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