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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Assumes
Everybody
Studied
Books
Threatened
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Academic
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University
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English
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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