Jasper Fforde Quotes

born 1961 Wales

Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English-born Welsh novelist and aviator. He is the author of the popular Thursday Next series, as well as the Nursery Crime books.

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To fail spectacularly is a loser’s paradise.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

It would have been easy to dislike her intensely, but I actually felt nothing for her at all.

The idea that people actually do this because they like it strikes me as double insanity with added insanity.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

Hamlet would worry about having nothing to worry about if he had nothing to worry about.

Something Rotten (2004)

You’ll excuse me if I’m not convinced by your supposed altruism.

People die in the Winter; it’s what it’s there for.

But his hits were greater than the sum of his misses, and such is the way with greatness.

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

The Eyre Affair (2001)

You’ll know the beginning easily enough; it’s when it all started going weird.

Tyrants are all the same—shocking temper when they don’t get their own way!

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

You’ve got a face longer than a Dickens novel.

The Eyre Affair (2001)

Preservation without expenditure is worthless.

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

“Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling,” said Square. “If it weren’t so commonplace, it would seem miraculous—like much out here, to be truthful.”

One of Our Thursdays is Missing (2011)

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.

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

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.

Something Rotten (2004)

“It was a coincidence.”
“I don’t believe in coincidences.”
“Neither do I. That’s a coincidence, isn’t it?”

The Eyre Affair (2001)

I’d been so convinced of that particular narrative I never for one moment stopped to reappraise the situation.

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

The Well of Lost Plots (2003)

Marriage, like spinach and opera, was something I had never thought I would like.

Lost in a Good Book (2002)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jasper Fforde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.