When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories,… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“...Mind you, if we we're talking about regeneration, we could go a step further and take a leaf out of the sponge… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Well, each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.” — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
