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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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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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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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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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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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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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...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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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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