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
real book editors
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.
morning fall reality
The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.
real odor might
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
wall reality entertainment
Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.
real book world
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
life real book
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.
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.