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
garden six-months hackers
I've got six months to sort out the hackers, get the Japanese knotweed under control and find an acceptable form of narcissus.
espresso white heartache
To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mug to stay, or extra cream, or have nothing, and by opposing the endless choice, end one's heartache...
mistake mind trying
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
ignorance prejudice tradition
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.
seven genre sentences
I have the death sentence in seven genres.
personality quota care
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
rotten denmark payback
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
wall color eight
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
ex-boyfriend lasts five
I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
wall way sat
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
father games names
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
cojones rebel zeus
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
sharks whales thursday
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
long-ago long flavor
Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.