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Class clowns become actors.

~Jasper Fforde

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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

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Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

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The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

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If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

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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 to university and studied English.

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Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

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When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

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I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: January 11th, 1961

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