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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
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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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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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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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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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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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