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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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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
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