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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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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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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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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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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