Top 183 Quotes & Sayings by Jasper Fforde
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
Every book should have a romance.
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.
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.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
Class clowns become actors.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
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.
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
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.
Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
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.
Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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.
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.
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.
Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
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.
There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.
Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
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 reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe
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