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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Humpty
Sat
Walls
Wall
Way
Always

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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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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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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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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 have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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