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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
Writer
London
England
Experimentation
Reached
Mostly
Subtle
Discovery
Art
Self
Writing

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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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...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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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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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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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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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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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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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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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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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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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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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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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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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