Top 25 Quotes by Jasper Fforde

If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.

I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.

When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.

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.

So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.

I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.

There is a certain degree of 'steampunkishness' that creeps into my books.