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
book writing years
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
believe years two
I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.
years names careers
I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.
teacher years eight
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
years people momentum
For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.
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.
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.
movies people until
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
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 should-have romance
Every book should have a romance.
determination self peculiar
Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable.
fun book writing
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.