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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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
Subtle
Discovery
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Writing
Experimentation
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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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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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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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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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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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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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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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