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Jasper Fforde Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 11, 1961

Topics

Good Me Writing Start Bag Long

Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.

Literature Lake Earth Places Been

One of the things that happens in space is that there is a fluid shift. You get a lot of extra pressure, and it fills your sinuses, and the horseradish is a miracle worker for cleaning that out.

John M. Grunsfeld

Space Pressure You Cleaning Out Get

When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.

Game Think You Find Play Sometimes

I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again.

Quality Believe I Can Know Why Won

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

Work Truth Humor Best Crazy Comedy

You always like to learn from people as a young actor. I think every young actor says that, but it's true.

Tom Weston-Jones

People Think Learn You Young True

Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the 'Wizard of Oz.' I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done.

Character Me Someone Nobody Done

The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.

Power Generation Transportation New

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Morning Sea Beautiful Great Wife

I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public.

Me Blessed Career Delight Pursue

I'm a little insane, and I'm going to be a little different. But hopefully, somewhere in there, in that creative arena, something will emerge that is new and different and unique.

Christopher Priest

Creative Unique New Will Little

I love my husband's fried chicken, but I took it to the next level by swiping it with Cholula honey butter - I'm a total hot-sauce freak.

Love Husband Honey Chicken Freak

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