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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
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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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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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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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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
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