Dave Morris

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning. ”

A very great deal is written about the future of book publishing - much more than on its present or past - and the only takeaway from all these oracles seems to be that a great empire will be destroyed. ”

Back in the early 1970s, what got me and another 400,000 kids out of bed without needing to be called twice was the latest issue of The Amazing Spider-Man. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show. ”

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size. ”

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. ”

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