My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story,… — 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
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt… — 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
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The… — 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
