Jasper Fforde

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

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

I studied international relations and economics at the University of Virginia. I paid my way by working as a bartender in the summer and at three part-time jobs during the year.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.