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
time tea hot
Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
simple ifs
If only life were that simple; if one could jump to the good parts and flick through the bad —
confused thinking albums
There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started.
fashion aunt ideas
Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.
sibling self personality
This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.
eggs officers
I loved him, officer. More than any woman ever loved an egg.
pigs people house
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
corporations goliath furnishings
The Goliath Corporation was to altruism what Genghis Khan was to soft furnishings.
eggs white machines
We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. By the time we chipped him out the poor chap had expired.
greed cash matter
Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
kitchen looks nine
Quarkbeasts, for all their fearsome looks, are obedient to a fault. They are nine-tenths velociraptor and kitchen blender and one-tenth Labrador. It was the Labrador tenth that I valued most.
mad political-correctness call-me
Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.
mistake people cost
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
religious fashion philosophical
Scientific thought - indeed, any mode of thought, whether it be religious or philosophical or anything else - is just like the fashions that we wear - only much longer lived. It's a little like a boy band.