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

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Word
Kind
Switched
Drew
Breath
Breaths
Listening

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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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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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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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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.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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You nearly killed eight people! I managed to gasp out loud. My count was closer to twelve, returned Havisham as she opened the door. And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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