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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.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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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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...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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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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