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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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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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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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