All Jasper Fforde Quotes
- Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right.… Bunch
- Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador… All
- Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic. Book
- If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad — Bad
- Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day. All
- I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's… Action
- People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. Bizarre
- I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. Anything Created
- Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres. Escapism
- Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those… Almost Exclusively
- Class clowns become actors. Actor
- It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. Agent
- Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. Agents
- The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. Books
- If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little. Children
- When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened. Happened
- I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Classical
- There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. Cash
- Every book should have a romance. Book