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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
Subtle
Discovery
Art
Self
Writing
Experimentation
Reached
Mostly

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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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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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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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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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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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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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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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