Book Quote by John M. Ford Download Open image “If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.” — John M. Ford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Would be Writing
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry. — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.' — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that can put… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It's hard to find a book that's safe to write. Because one always goes to dark or difficult places. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It’s sort of a blog for… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on the strangeness… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
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… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
“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… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts its shadow… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up - but there's something… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
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… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
