Jasper Fforde Quotes
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I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
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Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or knowing.
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If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
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Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
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I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
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Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
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Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
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Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
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Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
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If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!
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Class clowns become actors.
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I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
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For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
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Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
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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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Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
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When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
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I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
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I wished I could share my own optimism.