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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
Writer
London
England
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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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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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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
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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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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.
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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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To each our own Hamlet.
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