"The ideal, it seems to me, is to……" — John M. Ford

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

— 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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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the… — Aristotle
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in… — Chinua Achebe
Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher… — Jane Austen
If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they… — Teresa of Avila
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow… — Charles Babbage
Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose. — Richard Bach
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were… — Afrika Bambaataa
I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned. — Michael Bay
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. — John Barrymore
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. — Konrad Adenauer
You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things… — Mortimer Adler

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