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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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More quotes by Jasper Fforde
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.
Jasper Fforde
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
Jasper Fforde
Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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.
Jasper Fforde
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
Jasper Fforde
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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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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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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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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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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
Jasper Fforde
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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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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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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