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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Untruth
Hides
Annoying
Clarity
Information
Often
Surfeit

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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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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 you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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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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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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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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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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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.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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