Jasper Fforde Quotes - Page 7

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• If you even think about asking Harry Potter for an autograph, your day ends right now.

  Jasper Fforde

  Thinking, Asking, Potters

  Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.198, Penguin

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• 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

  Nuts, Missing, Arms

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• 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, Important, Dies

  Jasper Fforde (2005). “Something Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.196, Penguin

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• A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

  Jasper Fforde

  Information, Clarity, Annoying

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• The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.

  Jasper Fforde

  Age, Planets

  "The Eyre Affair: A Thursday Next Novel". Book by Jasper Fforde, February 25, 2003.

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• Marriage is an honorable estate and should not be used simply as an excuse for legal intercourse.

  Jasper Fforde

  Excuse, Used, Should

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• Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

  Jasper Fforde

  Thinking, Red, Sensible

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• This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disreputable sister of Jane; Roger Yossarian, the draft dodger and coward; Rupert Bond, still a virgin and can't keep a secret; Tracy Capulet, who has slept her way round Verona twice; and Nancy Potter, who is a Muggle.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sibling, Self, Personality

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• 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

  Book, Assuming, Academic

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• DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand up straight and say to yourself in an imperious air, 'I am the new Mrs. de Winter now!' You'll find it works wonders.

  Jasper Fforde

  Eye, Winter, Boys

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• How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

  Jasper Fforde

  Pigs, People, House

  Jasper Fforde (2006). “The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime”, p.30, Penguin

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• Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fun, Inspiration, School

  Interview with Simone Swink, www.januarymagazine.com. June, 2005.

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• I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high concept piece and see where the pieces fall. As it generally turns out, the central story is familiar, but just with different rules of engagement.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fall, Writing, Risk

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Aunt, Ideas

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa.

  Jasper Fforde

  Animal, Choices, Forever

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

  Jasper Fforde

  Years, People, Momentum

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.

  Jasper Fforde

  Book, Writing, People

  An Interview with Jasper Fforde by Simone Swink, www.bookbrowse.com. 2005.

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• In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars.

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  Order, Dancing, Good Man

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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