John M. Ford Reader Quotations

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

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.