“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, book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

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British novelist 1961

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