Quotes by Dave Morris - Page 1

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.
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Storytelling
Staircase
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Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
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Relate
Readers
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The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.
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Transcendent
Deity
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There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.
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Hunger
Insatiable
Good Stories
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As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
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Demand
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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Feeds
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In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.
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Contemplative
Good Writing
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
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War Peace Me
Dan
Smoother
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My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
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Advice
Agency
Reasonable
Size
Thirty
Sign
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Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
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Apps
Dear
Strengths
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Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
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Parenting
Giving
Child
Rise
Frankenstein
Troubled
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'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.
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Interpretation
Rich
Frankenstein
Meanings
Valid
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My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
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Heavy
Public Library
Volume
Hammer
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A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
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Well Written
Forms
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Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
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Prose
Standing
Authors
Bright
Businesspeople
Requires
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When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.
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Comic
Enthusiasm
Lessons
Rapture
Naturally
Medium
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Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
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Indulgence
Term
Literary
Literary Fiction
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'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
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Fireworks
Narrative
Trajectory
Blaze
Breaking
Breaking Bad
Planned
Shield
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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.
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Bus
Jumping
Up And Down
Agent
Picturing
Poster
Publisher
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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.'
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Designer
Your Game Will
Ah
Mention
Nod
Script
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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.
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Hand In Hand
Reader
Trick
Interact
Letting
Unfold
Viewer
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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.
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Spider Man
Twice
Latest
Needing
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Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
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Burden
Granted
Bookshelf
Nearly
Daunting
Game Of Thrones
Reached
Volumes
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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.
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Address
Chapter
Interact
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Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two.
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Rushing
Cheap
Motion
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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.
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Revolutionary
Named
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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
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Linear
Sat
Shadow
Unfinished
Walking Dead
Dead
Gear
Solid
Metal
Swan
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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.
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Destroyed
Oracles
Publishing
Future Great Past
Empire
Great Deal
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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.
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Stretching
Uncharted
Unlearn
Confining
Creators
Earlier
Medium
Struggling
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Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool that can draw you so deeply into the world of a story that you lose sight of it as a story. You think you are there - at least, if it is done right.
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Interactive
Sight
Storytelling
Connection
Powerful Tool
Tool
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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.
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Champion
Publicity
Publishers
Authors
Eager
Nobody Else
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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.
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Design
Creating
Heyday
Hundred
Phenomenon
Selling
Skills
Thousand
Units
Years Ago
Apply
Equally
Hat
Per
Nowadays
Title
Twenty
Videogames
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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.
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Admire
Angry
Bars
Bugs
Tired
Glaring
Interface
Jar
Secondly
Viewpoint
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