Jasper Fforde Quotes About Books

• 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

  Book, Technology, Looks

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.50, Penguin

• 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

  Life, Real, Book

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “Something Rotten: Thursday Next”, p.87, Hachette UK

• If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.

  Jasper Fforde

  Real, Book, World

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.73, Penguin

• Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Heed

  "The Eyre Affair". Book by Jasper Fforde, July 19, 2001.

• You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

  Jasper Fforde

  Believe, Book, Lakes

• Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Giving, Library

  Jasper Fforde (2009). “The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures 1”, p.74, Hachette UK

• Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Awards, Seven

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.120, Penguin

• the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

  Jasper Fforde

  Real, Book, Editors

• He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Needs, Attention

• Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Magic, Kind

  Jasper Fforde (2004). “Well of Lost Plots”, Viking Press

• It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

  Jasper Fforde

  Libro, Escritura, Años

  "Live webchat: Jasper Fforde" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

• People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

  Jasper Fforde

  Libro, Ideas, Personas

• There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Degrees, Creeps

  "The new Jasper Fforde: a brave new bookworld!". www.wired.com. February 23, 2011.

• Every book should have a romance.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Should Have, Romance

• The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

  Jasper Fforde

  Diversión, Libro, Escritura

  "Live webchat: Jasper Fforde" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2011.

• I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Assuming, Academic

• To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

  Jasper Fforde

  Libro, Escritura, Personas

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

• Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.

  Jasper Fforde

  Libro, Pensamiento, Gente

  Interview with Simone Swink, www.januarymagazine.com. June, 2005.

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