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
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.
long-ago long flavor
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
sorry overwhelming-desire long
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
reading writing long-ago
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago.
reading eggs long
Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.
life long simplicity
The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.
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.