Jasper Fforde Quotes

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 classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

Jasper Fforde

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• A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Home
  • Society
  • Government

• I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Way
  • Me
  • Writer

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Best
  • Expectation

• A desert is a place without expectation.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Place
  • Desert
  • Expectation

• My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in – like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Mother
  • Religious
  • Expectation

• I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Just
  • Reader

• If I have any audience, they can know that anything I am in, I would go see, with the expectation of being really satisfied.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Audience
  • Expectation
  • Satisfied

• It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • You
  • Reader
  • Tell

• Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Joy
  • Care
  • Expectation

• I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.

  

  Marat Safin
  • People
  • Think
  • Attention

• Octavia Butler often described herself as an outsider, but within science fiction, she was loved as an insider, someone who was a fan first and came to S.F. writing as an enthusiastic reader.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Loved

• I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Good
  • High

• I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Expectation

• When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Song
  • Kind
  • Expectation

• We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Expectation

• There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

  

  Bill Clegg
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Expectation

• I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Truth
  • Written
  • Reader

• Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Character
  • Book
  • Reader

• When I talk football with my friends, I don't talk about Tom Brady's hair. I talk about how he handles the blitz, or how he runs his offense. I talk as a fan. I don't want pink jerseys, and I don't want dumbed-down content. I want to be treated as a real fan - because I am proud to be one.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Proud

• I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Trying
  • Sometimes
  • Doing

• The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Good
  • Great
  • Death

• O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Wings
  • Thorns
  • Voluptuousness

• 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 classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Expectation
  • Reader
  • Morphed