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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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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Predicted
Odd
Destiny
Usually
Pretty
Thing

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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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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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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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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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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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