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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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

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Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.

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The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.

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You're right. The details of your hopeless quest to sacrifice your individuality on the altar of Chromatic betterment is about as exciting to me as pulling clodworms out of the juniors.

Jasper Fforde

Another one of your quippy japes?

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Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

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For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

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I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

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I'm beginning to think you're the sort of person who does a great deal with very little." He meant a liar.

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The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

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Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.

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Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances.

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In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

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The best plans are always the simplest.

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Chromatacia…society…ruled by a colortocracy…social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see.

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There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.

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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

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the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

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Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

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Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

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Author Bio

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