All Jasper Fforde Quotes
- She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… Classics
- You many have noticed I have a temper ... but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is,… Better
- Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous. Appearing
- Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened. Attack
- ...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment. Absorbed
- ...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness. Character
- 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 you… Bathroom
- Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,รขโฌย I said, รขโฌลbut the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people… Aspiration
- Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath. Breath
- To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to… Choice
- Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. Concentrates
- Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. Barriers
- Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech. Beyond
- The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt. Funny
- You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And… Closer
- 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… Able
- Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun… Ago
- Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. Addition
- The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never… Always Moves
- Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like. Inspirational