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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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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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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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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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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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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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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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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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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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