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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Chimera
Screams
Alert
Follows
Scream

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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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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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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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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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