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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
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Agents
Writing
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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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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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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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
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We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
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I have the death sentence in seven genres.
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I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
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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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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
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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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