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
information clarity annoying
A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.
entertain reader readers
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.
home
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
annoyed concentration help immense lots mind needs regards wanders wholly
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
movies people until
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
book ideas interesting
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
plans simplest
The best plans are always the simplest.
book writing years
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
book should-have romance
Every book should have a romance.
determination self peculiar
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.
fun book writing
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
believe book sea
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.
unique maturity two
The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.
men errors bureaucracy
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.