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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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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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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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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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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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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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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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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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