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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Listening
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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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 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.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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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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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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...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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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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