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
men errors bureaucracy
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
errors principles mankind
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
enjoyed far found good longer short sort stories treatments
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
perhaps
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
movies people until
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
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.
ask editor turned
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
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.
basic hope politics
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
movies sell sure terrible translate willing
I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.
children freedom
If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
device exciting few fresh lovely melody plot taste totally uniquely works
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
book ideas interesting
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.