Dave Morris

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.' ”

War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you. ”

If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus. ”

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child. ”

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

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

Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head. ”

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

In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time. ”

A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them. ”