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Jasper Fforde is a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels. He has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, and has published the first books of two additional independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey.

Fforde's books contain a profusion of literary allusions and wordplay, tightly scripted plots, and playfulness with the conventions of traditional genres. His works usually contain elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. January 1961  •  Other names یاسپر فورد, Джаспер Ффорде
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Works

The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book
Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
Jasper Fforde
The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde
Lost in a Good Book
Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde
First Among Sequels
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde: 75 quotes2 likes

Famous Jasper Fforde Quotes

“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 The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says… it's payback time!”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

“He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just… well,, that's all.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is…”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

Jasper Fforde Quotes about time

“I got Oedipus off the incest charge--technicality, of course--he didn't know it was his mother at the time.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“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 book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

“What is there to forgive?… Ignore forgive and concentrate on living. Life for you is short; far too short to allow small jealousies to infringe on the happiness which can be yours only for the briefest of times.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“I was on HPD--Heathcliff Protection Duty--in Wuthering Heights for two years, and believe me, the ProCaths tried everything. I personally saved him from assassination eight times.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“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.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

Jasper Fforde Quotes about the world

“I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“You many have noticed I have a temper… but when I calmed down, I realized that this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“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 book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

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

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“The neanderthal experiment was simultaneously the high and low point of the genetic revolution. Successful in that a long-dead cousin of Homo sapien was brought back from extinction, yet a failure in that the scientists, so happy to gaze upon their experiments from their ever lofty ivory towers, had not seen so far as to consider the social implications that a new species of man might command in a world unvisited by their like for over 30 millennia. It was little surprise that so many neanderthals felt confused and unprepared for the pressures of modern life. It was Homo sapien at his least sapient.”

Jasper Fforde

Lost In A Good Book (2002), ch. 4a, p. 67

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“Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“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 book First Among Sequels

Source: First Among Sequels

Jasper Fforde Quotes

“Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“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 Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“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

Source: Shades of Grey

“Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”

Jasper Fforde book The Woman Who Died a Lot

Source: The Woman Who Died a Lot

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“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.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”

Jasper Fforde book First Among Sequels

Source: First Among Sequels

“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“You'll like it here; everyone ismad.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

“the best lies to tell are the ones people want to believe”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.”

Jasper Fforde book First Among Sequels

Source: First Among Sequels

“…Tell me, has anything odd happened to you recently?
What do you mean, odd?'
Unusual. Deviating from the customary. Something outside the usual parameters of normalcy. An occurrence of unprecedented weird.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“Fiction wouldn't be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

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

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“If you expect me to believe that a lawyer wrote, I must be dafter than I look.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”

Jasper Fforde book First Among Sequels

Source: First Among Sequels

“Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“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.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“I have the death sentence in seven genres.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“The cleanest souls are the easiest to soil.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.”

Jasper Fforde book The Well of Lost Plots

Source: The Well of Lost Plots

“I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

“Were you listening to a word I said '
'I kind of switched off when you drew breath.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.”

Jasper Fforde book The Last Dragonslayer

Source: The Last Dragonslayer

“Defiance through compliance.”

Jasper Fforde

Source: Shades of Grey

“What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?”

“I don’t know—avant verrais?”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

“… the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

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