Jasper Fforde

"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."

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"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."

Jasper Fforde The Well of Lost Plots

"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."

Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution."

Jasper Fforde Something Rotten

"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."

Jasper Fforde Something Rotten

"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."

Jasper Fforde The Big Over Easy

"“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”"

Jasper Fforde First Among Sequels

"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."

Jasper Fforde Shades of Grey

"I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live."

Jasper Fforde

"So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix."

Jasper Fforde

"Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners ..."

Jasper Fforde

"You’re talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I’m talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever."

Jasper Fforde

"Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners"

Jasper Fforde

"Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs."

Jasper Fforde

"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder... I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife"

Jasper Fforde

"You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you"If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be."

Jasper Fforde

"The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more."

Jasper Fforde

"Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something."

Jasper Fforde

"When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a bearing that showed inner strength and resolve. I stared at her intently with a mixture of feelings. I had realised not long ago that I was no beauty, and even at the age of nine had seen how the more attractive children gained favour more easily. But here in that young woman I could see how those principles could be inverted. I felt myself stand more upright and clench my jaw in subconscious mimicry of her pose"

Jasper Fforde

"Mr. Mc Gregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature."

Jasper Fforde

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