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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
Always
Humpty
Sat
Walls
Wall
Way

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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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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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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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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 collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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