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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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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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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
Jasper Fforde
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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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