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
laughing survival looks
If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.
ideas matter east
Because there's someone else here in East Carmin. Someone hopelessly unsuitable. It's all a really bad idea and will lead to trouble of the worst sort. But no matter what, every minute in her presence makes my life a minute more complete.
moving government citizens
The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.
believe years two
I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.
hate character people
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
years names careers
I also read about Heathcliff's unexpected three-year career in Hollywood under the name Buck Stallion and his eventual return to the pages of Wuthering Heights.
hands detection firearms
Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.
evil knows know-how
True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...
real odor might
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.
long-ago long flavor
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
sorry overwhelming-desire long
Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.
majesty verbs sentences
Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.
book assuming academic
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.