All Jasper Fforde Quotes
- If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Book
- Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been… Answer
- [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific… Award
- People don't change just because you know more about them. Change
- Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even… Anyone
- Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of… Essence
- Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation. Art
- Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail. Blackmail
- We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble. Funny
- So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix. Comedy
- I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English. Academic
- Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer. Cancer
- I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you. Believe
- Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it… Brushfire
- After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors… All
- Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. Book
- Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature. Children
- Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. Inspirational
- Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for… All
- Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. Beat
- Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all. All
- Dead. Never been that before. Not even once. Been
- Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable. Ago
- Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. All
- Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. Apart