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To each our own Hamlet.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Hamlet

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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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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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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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