Fforde Books Quotes & Sayings

My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read "how to write" books as they may make the process a bit quicker. — Katie Fforde

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

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

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic. — Jasper Fforde

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

Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake. — Scott McClellan

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. — Jasper Fforde

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books. — Jasper Fforde

A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King

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

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

The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor. — Jasper Fforde

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

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time. — Jasper Fforde

Take no heed of her," explained Jones apologetically. "She reads a lot of books. — Jasper Fforde

Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now. Strive for the long now. — Jasper Fforde

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

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics. — Jasper Fforde

Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms - of life, of love, of knowledge - has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath. — Jasper Fforde

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

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books. — Jasper Fforde

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'. — Jasper Fforde

I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them. — Jasper Fforde

A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it. — George MacDonald

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

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

How foolish is man! He ruins the present while worrying about the future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past! — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

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

Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey
and returned. — Jasper Fforde

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire. — Malik Yoba