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I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it.'


Jasper Johns

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JASPER CARROTT Class clowns become actors.
JASPER FFORDE She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderl...
JASPER FFORDE If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no g...
JASPER FFORDE I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acc...
JASPER FFORDE There is no way in my right mind I would contemplate running 26 miles-plus unless it involved a chas...
JASPER CARROTT Tangling with the Goliath Corporation generally left you in one of two places: inside a wooden box w...
JASPER FFORDE When the amalgam is delivered to your dentist in a special protective box, he has to take extreme ca...
JASPER CARROTT Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so fort...
JASPER FFORDE After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You...
JASPER CARROTT [To survive has required tenacity. Koreans are reported even to have murdered children and mixed the...
JASPER BECKER When you're six years old, the word 'poo' is the funniest word on God's earth, but t...
JASPER CARROTT My driving habits are so ingrained that the driving examiner would fail me in the first mile. That&#...
JASPER CARROTT Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
JASPER FFORDE Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
JASPER FFORDE Touring has been a major part of my career. I've done a lot of huge shows, including a 13-night ...
JASPER CARROTT When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jok...
JASPER CARROTT На самом деле я подумывал написать самоучитель для фан...
JASPER FFORDE She was the sort of parent you would want to have living close by, but only on the grounds that she ...
JASPER FFORDE We have it on good authority that they might disguise it as a double entendre in a bedroom farce and...
JASPER FFORDE Well, that's it." I said after we had waited for another five minutes and found ourselves still in a...
JASPER FFORDE Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.
JASPER FFORDE extraordinary; I could almost see the Cambrian Mountains
JASPER FFORDE You are the best, most loving, supportive family anyone could ever have," I said through my sobs. "I...
JASPER FFORDE Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that an...
JASPER FFORDE Thursday, you mean everything to me. Not just because you're cute, smart, funny and have a de...
JASPER FFORDE Strive for the Long Now
JASPER FFORDE If it takes us 10 years to get into the shit, it will take us 20 to get out.

And the jour...
JASPER FFORDE If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
JASPER FFORDE Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could loo...
JASPER FFORDE There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
JASPER FFORDE Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the...
JASPER FFORDE