Jasper Fforde Quotes - Page 2

Writing is not something you can do or you can't. It's not even something that 'other people do' or 'for smart people only' or even 'for people who finished school and went to University'. Nonsense. Anyone can do it. But no-one can do it straight off the bat. Like plastering, brain surgery or assembling truck engines, you have to do a bit of training - get your hands dirty - and make some mistakes.

Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

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

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

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?

Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.

I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

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

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

Have you ever wondered how nostalgia isn"t what it used to be?

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

You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what did he say?' 'I don't know.' 'I thought you said you spoke gibberish?' 'I do. But your baby doesn't. I think he's speaking either pre-toddler nonsense, a form of infact burble or an obscure dialect of gobbledygook. In any event, I can't understand a word he's saying.' 'Oh.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

People don't change just because you know more about them.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest freezer.

The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.