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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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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 collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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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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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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