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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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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 could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
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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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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers. - Dad Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around. - Stafford
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There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
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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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Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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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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