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Jasper Fforde Biography

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels. He has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, and has published the first books of two additional independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.

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Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Children, Darth, Literature, Nasty, Piece, Pieces

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.

Book, Life, Real, Resolution, Ultimately

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Marriage, Opera, Spinach, Thought

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Detection, Firearms, Forth, Hands, Pen, Pens

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Equal, Expert, Experts, Opposite, Opposites, Science

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

Book, Books, Heed, Reads, Take

In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

Dancing, Discharge, Good Man, Order, Quite, Society

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

Deter, Impossible, Impossible Things, Past, Scare, Several

If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.

Believe, Dream, Expect, Lawyer, Night

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 you can't walk to the bathroom.

Bathroom, Day, Fall, Grammar, One Day, Shoes

Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.

Dies, Important, Mad, Nothing, Pretend

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

Imagination, Meanings, Paper, Sound, Squiggles

. . . being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Character, Degrees, Flatness, Might, Subconscious, Written

I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly. " I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.

Blossom, Curiosity, Doubt, I Don'T Need You, Quietly

I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.

Garden, Hackers, Knotweed, Six, Six Months

If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

Asking, Autograph, Harry, Potter, Potters, Thinking

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

Verbs, Majesty, Sentences, Short, Verb

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.

Down, Imperfect, Realized, Temper, World, Would Be

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Cancer, Growth, Philosophy, Purely, Sake

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Actually, Comedy, Dangerous, Genre, Highly, Jolly

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