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Top 10 Tom Bissell Quotes (2025 Update)

Tom Bissell Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.”

2. “When I play too many video games I begin to feel chubby-minded, caffeinated, bad.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.”

3. “Most non-readers are nothing but an agglomeration of third-hand opinion and blindly received wisdom.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.”

4. “Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.”

5. “Fun is not the same thing as fulfillment.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”

6. “A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this. – reviewing Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes.”

7. “Had Dr. Seuss been a slightly insane pornographer, he might have written a book like this. – reviewing Nicholson Baker’s House of Holes.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.”

8. “An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer’s vision feels like a philistine.”

9. “It is the devious writer indeed who writes in such a way that the critic who finds himself unresponsive to the writer’s vision feels like a philistine.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of your manipulation of it, and its manipulation of you, and instead feel inserted so deeply inside the game that your mind, and your feelings, become as seemingly crucial to its operation as its many millions of lines of code. It is the sensation that the game itself is as suddenly, unknowably alive as you are.”

10. “You have agency, yes, but what of it? It is just a game. But when a game does this well, you lose track of your manipulation of it, and its manipulation of you, and instead feel inserted so deeply inside the game that your mind, and your feelings, become as seemingly crucial to its operation as its many millions of lines of code. It is the sensation that the game itself is as suddenly, unknowably alive as you are.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.”

11. “More than any other form of entertainment, video games tend to divide rooms into Us and Them. We are, in effect, admitting that we like to spend our time shooting monsters, and They are, not unreasonably, failing to find the value in that.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming.”

12. “Hocking was slender in the way that writers and musicians are sometimes slender: not out of any desire or design but rather because his days were spent being consumed rather than consuming.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self.”

13. “Reading gives one something to think about other than one’s self.”

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Tom Bissell Quote: “Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.”

14. “Charyn, like Nabokov, is that most fiendish sort of writer-so seductive as to beg imitation, so singular as to make imitation impossible.”

— Tom Bissell

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