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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
Reached
Mostly
Subtle
Discovery
Art
Self
Writing
Experimentation

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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
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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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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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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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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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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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I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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