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
eight doors people
You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
teacher writing essence
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
dream world speech
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
names
The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
art writing discovery
Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
mistake smart dirty
Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.
dream believe night
If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote A Midsummer Night's Dream, I must be dafter than I look.
reading eggs long
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.
eggs white machines
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
greed cash matter
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
kitchen looks nine
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
people
Words are like leaves,. . .like people really, fond of their own society.
war causes excuse
Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.
children mind adults
Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.