Books Quotes by Jasper Fforde

Take no heed of her… She reads a lot of books.

— Jasper Fforde

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

— Jasper Fforde

Every book should have a romance.

— Jasper Fforde

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

— Jasper Fforde

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.

— Jasper Fforde

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

— Jasper Fforde

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

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

— Jasper Fforde

I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

— Jasper Fforde

“Her areas of expertise are bar codes, book titles and maps - she has an original Parker Brothers map of the world.”

— Jasper Fforde

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

— Jasper Fforde

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

— Jasper Fforde

Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as…

— Jasper Fforde

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

“You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there…

— Jasper Fforde

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

Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the…

— Jasper Fforde

“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

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates…

— Jasper Fforde

“Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now.…

— Jasper Fforde

Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you…

— Jasper Fforde

“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

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

To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense…

— Jasper Fforde

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head,…

— Jasper Fforde

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

“Well, each interpretation of an event, setting or character is unique to each of those who read it because they clothe the…

— Jasper Fforde

“Try to be pleasant to one another, get plenty of fresh air, read a good book now and then, depose your government…

— Jasper Fforde

“If this were a novel, you'd have to start a new chapter as soon as I appeared.”

— Jasper Fforde

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

— Jasper Fforde

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

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

— Jasper Fforde

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

— Jasper Fforde

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

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

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

“...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

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of…

— Jasper Fforde