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
book ideas interesting
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
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.
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.
real book editors
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
book giving library
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.
book assuming academic
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.
book awards seven
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
book needs attention
He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
book degrees creeps
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
book magic kind
Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
book writing people
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
book heed
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.