Jasper Fforde Quotes
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Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
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Every book should have a romance.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.
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For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
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The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
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Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.
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For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
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It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.
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This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.
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Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
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DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.
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Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
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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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If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.