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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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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.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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