Dave Morris
Dave Morris
prefer readers relate
Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
heavy home myths public volume
My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.
agency business reasonable sign
My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size.
core feels growing pace values
But we're still growing at a pace that feels comfortable to us, and maintains the core values and concepts.
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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.
almost comics hybrid motion rushing
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.
cup dutch favorite medium saying spreading
My favorite saying is that the cup is just the medium for spreading Dutch Love.
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We want to keep going. I lived in New York City for awhile, and my idea is to surround New York City and spread some Dutch Love around there.
change demand stories
As we get older, we demand stories that go somewhere. Things must change.
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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'.
apple family hot pie
It's the Boersma family put into a company. I couldn't ever get out of (the Boersma family home) without having hot apple pie and a big meal, or something.
bother bothered dead kid parents people seen
That's something I ain't going to forget. I've seen dead people before. The parents didn't bother me. But the kid bothered me.
buying cheese ordinary people selling
When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.
agent picturing poster side
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.