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.
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.
book degrees creeps
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
character might nuance
...being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.
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.
errors principles mankind
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
writing agents want
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
dad fire done
He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would have done it the other way around." - Stafford
two different ends
Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed.
interesting mixtures comedy
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
mistake mind trying
Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
We're in a psuedoscientific technobabble.
eight doors people
You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not.
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.