Pursuant to a discussion with reveilles, I went looking for Thursday Next fanfiction, and stumbled across this (halfway down the page) in Jasper Fforde's FAQ:

"My thoughts on Fan Fiction are pretty much this: That it seems strange to want to copy or 'augment' someone else's work when you could expend just as much energy and have a lot more fun making up ( Read more... )

There is no greater waste of time than giving up. --Pat Walsh

This is interesting:

"If you cannot tell others what you have been doing, your doing has been meaningless." ~ Schroedinger

"I'm not certain of this" - Heisenberg

:D