Quotes by Jasper Fforde

About Jasper Fforde:

Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written several books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.
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Funding for the Special Operations Network comes directly from the government. Most work is centralized, but all of the SpecOps divisions have local representatives to keep a watchful eye on any provincial problems. They are administered by local com...

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Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke...

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Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

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The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30...

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Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, , that's all.

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The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower lev...

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True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

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They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.

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There are two schools of thought about the resilience of time. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future. The other view is that time is rigid, and no matter how hard you try...

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No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though the Goliath Corporation is falling far short of its pro...

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I was born on a Thursday, hence the name. My brother was born on a Monday and they called him Anton--go figure. My mother was called Wednesday, but was born on a Sunday--I don't know why--and my father had no name at all--his identity and existence h...

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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

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There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason ...

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I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

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Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelle...

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Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet harden...

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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

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Author Bio

  • NameJasper Fforde
  • DescriptionBritish novelist
  • BornJanuary 11, 1961
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist
  • AwardsBollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize