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
opposites happened knows
What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?
evil knows know-how
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
mother oedipus knows
I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.
sometimes knows
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
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.