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John M. Ford Quotes
John M. Ford
American
Writer
Born:
Apr 10
,
1957
Died:
Sep 25
,
2006
Author
Book
Different
Lost
People
Who
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.
John M. Ford
Lost
Challenged
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.
John M. Ford
Happy
Made
Spoken
Stuff
New
Well
Very
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Choice
Who
If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
John M. Ford
Book
Would
Would-Be
Darker
Web
Write
Were
Much
Now
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.
John M. Ford
Good
Events
Way
Has-Been
Only
Generally
Reader
Deal
Access
Said
Been
Ambiguity
Them
Show
Naturally
Good Deal
Presentation
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
Reality
Sometimes
Will
Else
Something
Something Else
Attempts
True
Empirically
Reader
Than
Author
Intent
Decide
Decipher
Certainly
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.
John M. Ford
Future
Good
Space
Cynical
Enough
See
More
Part
Contemporary
Opera
Deal
Answer
Disconnected
Issues
Expect
Far
Good Deal
Set
The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
John M. Ford
Me
Seems
Allow
Ideal
Reader
Decide
Happening
Mean
Show
Things
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.
John M. Ford
Every
Those
Out
Point
Clearly
Ideas
Readers
Pry
Want
Forth
Themselves
Meanings
Who
Set
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