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All Quotes by author - John M. Ford
" At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe. "
I Am
Evolution
Place
" Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. "
Game
Creating
World
" 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 be said for a book that isn't instantly disposable, that rewards a second reading. "
Think
Giving
Lost
" If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book. "
Web
Now
Book
" 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. "
Made
Well
New York
" 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 a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. "
Events
Way
Good
" People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's the one Trek book they'll give to people they wouldn't expect to like others. "
Book
Enough
People
" Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality. "
Intent
True
Reality
" The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues. "
Enough
Future
Good
" The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. "
Me
Show
Ideal
" The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating. "
Characters
Language
Effect
" The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations. "
Expectations
Audience
People
" There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't. "
Believe
People
Clarity
" 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 out for themselves. "
Ideas
Meanings
Out
" 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 in rather narrow terms. "
Adventure
Intention
Culture
" We're not lost. We're locationally challenged. "
Lost
Challenged
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