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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Bird
Taste
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Extinct

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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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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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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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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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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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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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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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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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