Quotes About Bookworld

#1. Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world," I said, "but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be - it isn't a mirror, it's an aspiration.

Jasper Fforde

#2. What is without dispute ... is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them - to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

Jasper Fforde

#3. Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.

Jasper Fforde

#4. Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.

Jasper Fforde

#5. Graham glanced up at the sky, which was pale and pocked with birds, the whole thing like a negative of yesterday's fireworks display.

Jennifer E. Smith

#6. The landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

Jasper Fforde

#7. Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Peggy Kopman-Owens

#8. The difficulties continued but caused them less grief: Life had taken on the task of teaching them that the joy of love was not meant to lull you to sleep, but to keep you struggling together.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. Find a path or make one.

Seneca The Younger

#10. I'm 5 foot 7, and I've got pasty white skin. I don't think I'm ugly, don't get me wrong, but I'm not your classic lead man, Brad Pitt guy.

James McAvoy

#11. When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

Andrei Platonov

#12. She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Arundhati Roy

#13. Being written by someone who might not quite understand the subconscious nuance of the character leaves us in varying degrees of flatness.

Jasper Fforde

#14. Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Jasper Fforde

#15. What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion ... whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce
render emotional
his audience, each time.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#16. I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

Jean-Claude Duvalier