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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: Remember, m'boy, his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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...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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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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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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