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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Skepticism
Experts
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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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 fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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 have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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