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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
Feels
Jokes
Academics
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Everybody
Studied
Books
Threatened
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University
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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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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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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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