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Jasper Fforde

"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

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Donna Grant

"People should be courage to read books, it should be made in such way how I changed my opinion how James Patterson did it. It should be done a way in which people should se the advantages of reading a book."

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Donna Grant

"There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it."

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Donna Grant

"She'd obviously read the book many times before, and so she read flawlessly and confidently, and I could hear her smile in the reading of it, and the sound of that smile made me think that maybe I would like novels better if Alaska Young read them to me."

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Donna Grant

"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."

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Donna Grant

"By reading a lot of novels in a variety of genres, and asking questions, it's possible to learn how things are done - the mechanics of writing, so to speak - and which genres and authors excel in various areas."

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Donna Grant

"Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book."

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Donna Grant

"If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it."

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Donna Grant

"It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."

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Donna Grant

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story."

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Donna Grant

"I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please."

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

Morality

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Jasper Fforde
"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."

Reading

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Jasper Fforde
"She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe."

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Jasper Fforde
"I liked him, but since his particular field of interest was Remote Suggestion--the skill of projecting thoughts into people's heads from a distance--I didn't know whether I actually liked him or he was just suggesting I like him, which was both creepy and unethical. In fact, the whole Remote Suggestion or "seeding" idea had been banned once it was discovered to be the key ingredient in promoting talent less boy bands, which had until then been something of a mystery."

Ethics

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Jasper Fforde
"In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash."

Silence

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Jasper Fforde
"Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands."

Conflict

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Jasper Fforde
"There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook."

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Jasper Fforde
"Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics, nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed."

Corruption

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Jasper Fforde
"Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners."

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Jasper Fforde
"So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix."

Humor

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