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Jasper Fforde is a British novelist known for his unique sense of humor and his skillful blending of reality and fantasy. His works are characterized by complex narrative structures and rich imagination, which have won him a wide readership.

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Famous Jasper Fforde Quotes

“I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevitably found me, as important truths often do, like a lost thought in need of a mind.”

Needs Mind Important Found Lost Humility Chairs Fringe Census

Book:Shades of Grey

Source: Shades of Grey

“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”

World Needs Book Real Mess Editors Real World

Author:Jasper Fforde

“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.”

Needs Said Book My Own Attention Cost Forty Personal Relationships Thursday Next

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.”

Needs Humans Stories Lasts Form Spirit Mankind Draws Essence Mark Breaths Capture Human Spirit Good Story

Book:Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel

Source: Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel

“I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action.”

Ifs Needs Littles Said Action Bits Emotion Doubt Little Bit Agree Curiosity Going Away Suspicion Need You Don't Need You I Don't Need You

Book:Shades of Grey

Source: Shades of Grey

“"Edward, Edward," he said with a patronising smile, "there are no unanswered questions of any relevance. Every question that we need to ask has been answered fully. If you can't find the correct answer then you are obviously asking the wrong question."”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Said Asks Answers Asking Relevance Unanswered Questions Unanswered

Author:Jasper Fforde

“Writing needs to be practiced; there is a limit to how much can be gleaned from a teacher or a manual. The true essence of writing is out there, in the world, and inside, within yourself. To write, you have to give.”

World Needs Giving Writing Teacher Limits Essence Manuals

Author:Jasper Fforde

About the Author

Born: January 11, 1961
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 228

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