Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence. Jasper Fforde More Quotes by Jasper Fforde More Quotes From Jasper Fforde I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception. Jasper Fforde mankind errors principles People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. Jasper Fforde book people ideas A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village." "Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something?" "Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive. Jasper Fforde arms missing nuts Pretend to be mad and talk a lot. Then — and this is the important bit — do nothing at all until you absolutely have to and then make sure everyone dies. Jasper Fforde mad dies important There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books. Jasper Fforde creeps degrees book The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass reassemble itself and then jump back on the table. Jasper Fforde glasses fall moving If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now. Jasper Fforde potters asking thinking There is much unexplained in the world. It behooves us to be wary at all times. Just when you think you've got the hang of it, along comes string theory, collateralized debt obligations or Björk's new album, and bam! You're as confused as you were when you first started. Jasper Fforde confused albums thinking Death and the end of one's life are two very different things indeed. Jasper Fforde different ends two Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing. Jasper Fforde agents want writing I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz. Jasper Fforde taste-in-music rap rats You nearly killed eight people!" I managed to gasp out loud. "My count was closer to twelve," returned Havisham as she opened the door. "And anyhow, you can't nearly kill someone. Either they are dead or they are not. Jasper Fforde eight doors people I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade. Jasper Fforde eight teacher years The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. Jasper Fforde writing fun book Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and swish of the incoming tide, we should reserve as much praise for ourselves as for the author. After all, the reader is doing all the work - the writer might have died long ago. Jasper Fforde long-ago reading writing Our notions of self-determination are, on the whole, something of a myth. We are governed almost exclusively by our own peculiar habits, which makes those who rail against them that much more remarkable. Jasper Fforde peculiar determination self The best plans are always the simplest. Jasper Fforde simplest plans The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date. Jasper Fforde planets age 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 attention book needs Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give. Jasper Fforde essence writing teacher
