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The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to have a story idea, and I decided to write a novel with it instead, I'd have to very consciously de-couple it from gamedom - for example, deliberately add in things that could not be represented in a game scene.

Story may not be a great addition to some games - games where action is the whole reason for the game to exist.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

It's often said that everybody has a story to tell, and I suppose that's true, but the problem is that most of them aren't worth telling.

What we want to see is stories that are going to be honest stories about the characters that we're telling them about.

Basically, all novelists should want to tell a story, and if they don't want to, they shouldn't be novelists. I think story-telling is important and underrated.