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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Hamlet
Rotten
Says
State
States
Something
Time
Denmark

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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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