Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Ffordeis a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 January 1961
people insane librarian
Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.
teacher years eight
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
mad important dies
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.
fate luxury choices
Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
summer running wine
Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
thinking red sensible
Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.
age planets
The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.
should-have quality fine
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.
information clarity annoying
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
eight tea spoons
Acceptable rules of conduct were suspended when it came to the spoon shortage. The deficit had gotten so bad that prices were all but unaffordable, and dynastic spoon succession had become a matter of considerable interest. Spoons were even postcode engraved and carried on one's person to eliminate theft, and good table manners, one of the eight pillars upon which the Collective was built, had been relaxed to allow tea to be stirred - shockingly - with the handle of a fork.
thinking eight knowing
Librarying is a harder profession than the public realizes, he said. People think it's all rubber stamps, knowing that Dewey 521 is celestial mechanics and saying 'Try looking under fiction' sixty eight times a day.
destiny odd
That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.
optimism share my-own
I wished I could share my own optimism.
asking unanswered-questions answers
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.