Top 20 John M. Ford Quotes

#1. Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.

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#2. We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

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#3. Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation.

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#4. Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow when the first two meet by moonlight.

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#5. We're not lost. We're locationally challenged

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#6. I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something to be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading.

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#7. There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't.

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#8. If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

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#9. Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem?

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#10. The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

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#11. I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

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#12. The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.

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#13. Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

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#14. Observe, don't imitate.

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#15. Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.

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#16. The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

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#17. At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

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#18. The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

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#19. People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others.

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#20. There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.

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