Jasper Fforde: Trending quotes

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.”

“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.”

“Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.”