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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Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.

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She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the cl...

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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

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I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

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Inviting a goblin to cross your threshold was a recipe for disaster, and certainly worse than doing the same with a vampire. With the latter all you got was a nasty bite, but the company, the extraordinarily good sex and the funny stories more than m...

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All of everything came into existence simply because it wanted to be. The big bang wasn't so much a big bang as a hasty dash toward an opportunity to trade nothingness for somethingness. The main contributory factor to the entire universe was a momen...

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Though his death would not fill me with any sense of sadness, I would probably feel the loss. Even enemies are part of one.

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Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of the multiverse no end.

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Before, I suspected I might not amount to anything, and now I now I won't, so at least it takes away the wearisome burden of delusive hope

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My only companion from the outside world during nineteen years of isolation has been my personal hatred of Thursday Next. It's kind of like the old me suddenly taking over, and I promised myself that this was how I would act if I ever saw you.' 'I ha...

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I wasn't particularly worried; running is overrated anyway, and sport only makes you sweaty and smug and wears out the knees.

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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.

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Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

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Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

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After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should...

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Prices of semicolons, plot devices, prologues and inciting incidents continued to fall yesterday, lopping twenty points off the TomJones Index.

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If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

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When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

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I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

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So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

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Author Bio

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