"Writing needs to be practiced; there is a……" — Jasper Fforde
"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 out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give."
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde has 159 quotes on this site.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
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[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
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People don't change just because you know more about them.
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Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
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I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
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Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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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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The energy of the mind is the essence of life.
— Aristotle
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Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.
— Nnamdi Azikiwe
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but…
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very…
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If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy…
— Irving Babbitt
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a…
— Eric Bana
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The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
— John Adams
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The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.
— Jane Addams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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What is the essence of theosophy? It is the fact that man, being himself divine, can know the divinity whose…
— Annie Besant
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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