"I work very much on the principle that……" — Jasper Fforde
"I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception."
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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde
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- Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we…
- [from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr.…
- People don't change just because you know more about them.
- Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for…
- Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a…
- Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.
- Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
- We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
- So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
- I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went…
- Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.
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