Jasper Fforde Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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It's an honor to be a part of Magic Shave as their new ambassador. One of the problems that some African-American men have with shaving is razor bumps. Magic Shave is perfect because once you eliminate the razor, you eliminate the bumps, and it's so easy to use.
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Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.
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I was very, very little - it was the first time I ever cooked on my own, with my mother's supervision - and I made scrambled eggs. I felt so accomplished, like magic!
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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I don't think 'Magadheera' should be remade, nor do I think it will be remade. It is very difficult to recreate the same magic.
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Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
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The best of me now lives on in my two little women, baby girls I was lucky enough to be able to make with my own body.
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We never take this stuff for granted. The longer we're out here, too, in a lot of ways, the more we appreciate it, because we see so many great acts who're out here with us, and you realize how steep the competition really is. So, this win is even better 'cause it says people are still digging what we're doing. We're still keeping it fresh and people are into it.
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The rule for finding plots for character-centered novels, which is to ask: 'So what's the worst possible thing I can do to *this* guy?' And then do it.
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Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
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«We do what we can do means what exactly means, that we do what we can do.»
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Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
