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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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London
England
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
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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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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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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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