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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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