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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Firearms
Sword
Pens
Literary
Forth
Hand
Hands
Really
Detection

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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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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.
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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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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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