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Dave Morris Quotes

British - Author | March 19, 1957 -

Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.

Champion Story Better You Person Up

Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

Today Bright Become More Need Out

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

Home Memory Library First Hammer

As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.

Change Go Things Somewhere Must Get

'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.

Start Bad Down Right Fireworks Come

It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.

Story Easy Want Force Making Unfold

Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

Confidence Create Now Strengths Up

One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.

Time Name Company Reason Pretty

People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.

Hat People Think Design You Skills

I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact.

Progress People Story End You Want

'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.

Work Rich Possible Interpretation

A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.

Attention Belief Storytelling Your

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