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Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Science Fiction Writer
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London
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More quotes by Jasper Fforde
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
Jasper Fforde
If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
Jasper Fforde
The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
Jasper Fforde
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
Jasper Fforde
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
Jasper Fforde
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
Jasper Fforde
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
Jasper Fforde
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.
Jasper Fforde
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.
Jasper Fforde
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
Jasper Fforde
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
Jasper Fforde
Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.
Jasper Fforde
If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
Jasper Fforde
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
Jasper Fforde
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
Jasper Fforde
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
Jasper Fforde
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
Jasper Fforde
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Jasper Fforde
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
Jasper Fforde
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
Jasper Fforde