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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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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
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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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Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
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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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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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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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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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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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