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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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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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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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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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