Books Quote by Jasper Fforde

Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried…

— Jasper Fforde

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…

— Jasper Fforde

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

— Jasper Fforde

Take no heed of her… She reads a lot of books.

— Jasper Fforde

“Our own dimension was coded ID-11 and was the only League member with diphtheria, David Hasselhoff and the French, which amused the rest of…

— Jasper Fforde

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

— Jasper Fforde

“They had just digested a recent meal of prepositions and were happily farting out apostrophes and ampersands; the air was heav'y with th'em&.”

— Jasper Fforde

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the…

— Jasper Fforde

“Sometimes your destiny takes you to dark places where you'd rather not be, but destiny, as they say, is destiny.”

— Jasper Fforde

“Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly…

— Jasper Fforde

“A sloppy half-Windsor is the first symptom of serial indolence' she replied in the patronizing voice that Yellows reserved for Rule-breakers, 'and ignoring the…

— Jasper Fforde

The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you…

— Jasper Fforde