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
moving government citizens
The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
fashion government all-time
Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.
party intelligent government
[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.
logical next
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
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.
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.
ask editor turned
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
perhaps
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
basic hope politics
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
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.