Quote

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.

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
Important
Learn
Chair
Needs
Often
Chairs
Mind
Lost
Conduct
Like
Found
Truths
Fringes
Didn
Sent
Census
Thought
Discover
Fringe
Truth
Humility
Outer
Need
Actually
Inevitably

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
Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Edward, Edward, he said with a patronising smile, there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
Jasper Fforde
Image
A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.
Jasper Fforde
Image
I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies.
Jasper Fforde
Image
If only life were that simple if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad.
Jasper Fforde
Image
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
Jasper Fforde
Image
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
Jasper Fforde
Image
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
Image
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
Jasper Fforde
Image
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
Jasper Fforde
Image
To each our own Hamlet.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.
Jasper Fforde
Image
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
Jasper Fforde
Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
Jasper Fforde