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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.Jasper Fforde
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.Jasper Fforde
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Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.Jasper Fforde
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Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world, ” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be–it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.Jasper Fforde
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I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.Jasper Fforde
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Inviting a goblin to cross your threshold was a recipe for disaster, and certainly worse than doing the same with a vampire. With the latter all you got was a nasty bite, but the company, the extraordinarily good sex and the funny stories more than made up for it–apparently.Jasper Fforde
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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.Jasper Fforde
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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.Jasper Fforde
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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.Jasper Fforde