"the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a……" — Jasper Fforde

"the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor."

— Jasper Fforde

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159 Quotes by Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde has 159 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
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When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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