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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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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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...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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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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