Books Quote by Jasper Fforde

“But my kind reader will please to remember that this history has “Vanity Fair” for a title, and that Vanity Fair is a very…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The glory of fiction is in its falseness, but the impact of fiction is found in its painful reality.”

— R.W.K. Clark

“Vanity is an expressionless stylistic device.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Vanity is so firmly anchored in man's heart that a soldier, a camp follower, a cook or a porter will boast and expect admirers,…

— Blaise Pascal

“Virtue would not go so far if vanity did not keep it company.”

— La Rocherfoucauld

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing;…

— David Foster Wallace

“Fiction is nothing but non-fiction couched to conceal the identity of the writer.”

— Tapan Ghosh

Fiction is always really a labor.

— Ann Patchett

“What's remarkable about fiction is that it places you in the unusual position of having no trajectory. You stand aside, motives abandoned for the…

— Tom Rachman

“Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. Francois de La Rochefoucauld”

— Gabriela Popa

“why did i so passionately require the truth? because all great fiction is true”

— Kinky Friedman

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a…

— Steve Almond