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
home
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
perhaps
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
logical next
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
device exciting few fresh lovely melody plot taste totally uniquely works
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
annoyed concentration help immense lots mind needs regards wanders wholly
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
humility mind important
I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.
listening kind said
Were you listening to a word I said ' 'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.
love-is wonderful dear
Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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.
pigs people house
How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?
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.
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.
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!
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.