Quote

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

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
Things
Times
Didn
Deter
Past
Prospect
Used
Scare
Done
Several
Hard
Wouldn
Going
Wasn
Much
Impossible

More quotes by Jasper Fforde

Image
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
Jasper Fforde
Image
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.
Jasper Fforde
Image
The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.
Jasper Fforde
Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isnt what it used to be?
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
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
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
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.
Jasper Fforde
Image
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
Jasper Fforde
Image
I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
Jasper Fforde
Image
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
Image
You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.
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
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.
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. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
Jasper Fforde
Image
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.
Jasper Fforde
Image
The best plans are always the simplest.
Jasper Fforde