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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
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London
England
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Agents
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
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Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
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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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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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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
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You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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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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Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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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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Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
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