Top 25 Quotes by Jasper Fforde

About Jasper Fforde

These are some quotes by British author Jasper Fforde Novelist, who was born on January 11, 1961.

My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.

Jasper Fforde

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

Jasper Fforde

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

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

Jasper Fforde

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

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

Jasper Fforde

I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.

Jasper Fforde

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Jasper Fforde

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

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

Jasper Fforde

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Jasper Fforde

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

Jasper Fforde

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.

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

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