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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Opera
Marriage
Thought
Something
Never
Would
Like
Spinach

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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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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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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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To each our own Hamlet.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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