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.
movies people until
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
summer reading healing
After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.
food vegetables nuts
The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.
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.
science opposites experts
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.
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?