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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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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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To each our own Hamlet.
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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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Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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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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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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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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I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
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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'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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The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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