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Reader Quotes by John M. Ford
- Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
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- A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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