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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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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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