Quote

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

Jasper Fforde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Scene
Might
Real
Pervaded
Odor
Ink
Faint
Apart

More quotes by Jasper Fforde

Image
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper Fforde
Image
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
Jasper Fforde
Image
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
Jasper Fforde
Image
If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.
Jasper Fforde
Image
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.
Jasper Fforde
Image
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is.
Jasper Fforde
Image
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
Jasper Fforde
Image
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark. A whale isn't a fish, Thursday. A whale shark is--sort of. All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish. A crayfish isn't a fish. A starfish, then. Still not a fish. This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
Jasper Fforde
Image
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
Jasper Fforde
Image
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.
Jasper Fforde
Image
The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
Jasper Fforde
Image
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
Jasper Fforde
Image
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
Jasper Fforde