"If I were to write Web now, it……" — John M. Ford

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

— John M. Ford

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19 Quotes by John M. Ford

John M. Ford has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture…
Observe, don't imitate.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher…
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one…
We're not lost. We're locationally challenged
I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder…
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next…
I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not…
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction.
I don't think anyone wants a reader to be completely lost - certainly not to the point of giving up…
We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off…
The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
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Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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