Imagination Quote by Jasper Fforde

“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”

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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried…

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Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and…

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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

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Take no heed of her… She reads a lot of books.

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“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of…

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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

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“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.”

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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…

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“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.”

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“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly…

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“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the infraction gives the impression that it is acceptable to be inappropriately attired. The next day it might be badly polished shoes, then uncouth language, showing off and impoliteness. Before one knows it, the rot of disharmony…

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