Jasper Fforde Quotes

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• If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
• 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…
• [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific…
• People don't change just because you know more about them.
• Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even…
• Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of…
• Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
• Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
• We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
• So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
• 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.
• Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
• I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
• Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it…
• 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…
• Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
• Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
• Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
• Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for…
• Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

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