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People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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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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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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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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He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
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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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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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Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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