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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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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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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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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 surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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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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