Jasper Fforde Quotes
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The best plans are always the simplest.
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Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
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Every book should have a romance.
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
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The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
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A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
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Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
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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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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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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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Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
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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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There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
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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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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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There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
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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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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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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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Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
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I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
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Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.