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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Situation
World
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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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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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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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The best plans are always the simplest.
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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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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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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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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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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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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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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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