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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
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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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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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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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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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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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Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
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If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
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Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
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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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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
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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 weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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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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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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