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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

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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Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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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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The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
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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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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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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
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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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...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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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 never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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