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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.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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...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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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