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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
Went
Assumes
Everybody
Studied
Books
Threatened
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Academic
Still
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University
Feel
English
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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