Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Ffordeis a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 January 1961
book technology looks
Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.
summer reading healing
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
children freedom
If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
logical next
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
book ideas interesting
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.
thinking asking potters
If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.
men errors bureaucracy
Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
basic hope politics
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
book writing years
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
book should-have romance
Every book should have a romance.
believe book sea
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.
real book editors
the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.