Fforde Books Quotes

#1. God is reveaing Himself in this hour as the supreme elation of the soul. True love of God is evident in those whose only pleasure is derived fom drawing near to Him.

John Crowder

#2. It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

#4. People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

Honore De Balzac

#5. I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Jasper Fforde

#6. Take no heed of her," explained Jones apologetically. "She reads a lot of books.

Jasper Fforde

#7. I hope people get genuine joy from our music.

Sydney Sierota

#8. Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

Jasper Fforde

#9. Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

Channing Tatum

#10. My best advice for aspiring writers is to read a lot and write. Don't worry if you don't get your first, fifth or tenth novel published, if you keep going you'll make it. Also read "how to write" books as they may make the process a bit quicker.

Katie Fforde

#11. Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.

Jasper Fforde

#12. You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library.' She pointed to the shelf opposite. 'Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Jasper Fforde

#13. 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.

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

#15. Today, just for today, let someone live in your beauty of love.

Debasish Mridha

#16. People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

Jasper Fforde

#17. I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

Johnny Depp

#18. It was a big decision to leave the system because many people said I would fail.

Li Na

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

Jasper Fforde

#20. Keep people reading books, Mum; it helps to reinforce and strengthen the indefinable moments that anchor us in the here and now. Strive for the long now.

Jasper Fforde

#21. I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.

Jasper Fforde

#22. I'm not sure my books would translate into movies very easily. So rather than have someone do a terrible job, I haven't been willing to sell them.

Jasper Fforde

#23. Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

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

Jasper Fforde

#28. 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

#29. One would think that by the second decade of the twenty-first century, the intellectual poverty of technocracy and the primacy of politics over it would be a well-established truth in need of no further defense.

Evgeny Morozov

#30. He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

Jasper Fforde

#31. I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Carly Fiorina