Jasper Fforde Quotes

• Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Death

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Love

• 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.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Life

  Tags in World

• For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Philosophy

• Religion isn’t the cause of wars, it’s the excuse.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Religion

• The Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Humour

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books, Reading

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

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Books

• Literary detection and firearms don’t really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Books

• Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Humor

• Death doesn’t care about personalities – he’s more interested in meeting quotas.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Humor

• Fiction wouldn’t be much fun without its fair share of scoundrels, and they have to live somewhere.

  Jasper Fforde

  Topics in Humor

Jasper Fforde (54)

Birth:	11th January, 1961
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Jasper Fforde was born in London, England. He is a British novelist. He has written several novels include: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book (Dilys Awards Best Book winner- 2004), The Well of Lost Plots (Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel winner- 2004), Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, The Woman Who Died a Lot, The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear, Shades of Grey, The Last Dragonslayer, and The Song of the Quarkbeast.

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