"To create anything — whether a short story……" — Tom Bissell
"To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom — is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic — which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see."
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12 Quotes by Tom Bissell
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To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.
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An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those…
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[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing…
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Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make…
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A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.
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Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.
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We are no longer worried that children are missing school because of video games, though. We are worried that they…
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When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.
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Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.
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Reading gives one something to think about other than one's self.
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Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.
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