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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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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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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
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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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...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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
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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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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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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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I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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