John M. Ford

We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.

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

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.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.