Quote

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

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
Picks
Seven
Seventy
Expect
Troubled
Lead
Seventies
Reader
Awards
Times
Readers
Book
Romantic
Pick

More quotes by Jasper Fforde

Image
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.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.
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
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
Jasper Fforde
Image
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
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
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Sorry, [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
Jasper Fforde
Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
Jasper Fforde
Image
What is there to forgive?. . .Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.
Jasper Fforde
Image
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Do I have to talk to insane people? You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
Jasper Fforde
Image
The best plans are always the simplest.
Jasper Fforde
Image
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
Jasper Fforde
Image
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.
Jasper Fforde
Image
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
Jasper Fforde