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