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Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
Jasper Fforde
I don't need you to agree with me, she said quietly. I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.
Jasper Fforde
...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
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
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
Jasper Fforde
Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
Jasper Fforde
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
Jasper Fforde
Don't move, said Sprockett.Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.
Jasper Fforde
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
Jasper Fforde
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
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
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
Jasper Fforde
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
Jasper Fforde
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
Jasper Fforde
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.
Jasper Fforde
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
Jasper Fforde
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
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
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
I'll tell you what love is I said, It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.
Jasper Fforde