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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Flick
Jump
Parts
Simple
Good
Life

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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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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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