Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

Jasper Fforde

Tag: humor on-fiction fiction



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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 colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Jasper Fforde

Tag: reading



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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

Jasper Fforde

Tag: evil good



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

Jasper Fforde

Tag: humor shakespeare comeback



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

Jasper Fforde

Tag: humor books literature guns



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Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

Jasper Fforde

Tag: hamlet indecision monologues parody soliloquies



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I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Jasper Fforde

Tag: humor first-person pov



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I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.

Jasper Fforde

Tag: humor heathcliff wuthering-heights



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I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.

Jasper Fforde

Tag: humor oedipus



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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Jasper Fforde

Tag: books



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