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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

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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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Writing needs to be practiced there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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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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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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