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
nostalgia used used-to-be
Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?
jail giving soul
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!
bird taste bits
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
fighting common-sense denial
I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.
optimism share my-own
I wished I could share my own optimism.
summer running wine
Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for many of us is not that everything will come to an end but when. And can we do anything vaguely useful until it does?
fate luxury choices
Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.
one-day lessons thursday
Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.
asking unanswered-questions answers
Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question.
teacher writing essence
Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.
should-have quality fine
You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.
names
The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.
landscape lord form
...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.
mirrors people literature
Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.