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"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."
"A man cannot deserve adventures, he cannot earn dragons and hippogriffs."
"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."
"Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. 'Sorry.' He bared his fangs in an apologetic grin. 'We're glad you aren't what's hunting us, but we're no friends of IPCA. And we're all very, very, thirsty.''What, no flirting?' I asked, trying to buy time. 'Aren't you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there--they'd be so disappointed.' I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. 'Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren't suave."
"If you knew what lies ahead on the path, it would not be an adventure, now would it?"
"There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been."
Explore more quotes by John M. Ford
"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
"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."
"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."
"There are people who believe in an absolutely transparent prose; with every respect for clarity of expression, I don't."
"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."
"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."
"The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating."
"Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction."
"The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean."
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