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Brief about Jasper Fforde: By info that we know Jasper Fforde was born at 1961-01-11. And also Jasper Fforde is British Novelist.

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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Tags: Mankind, Principle, Work

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

Tags: Good, Publishers, Writing

Class clowns become actors.

Tags: Become, Class, Clowns

Every book should have a romance.

Tags: Book, Romance

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

Tags: Jazz, Music, Rap

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

Tags: Books, Hope, Politics

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

Tags: Books, Notion, Write

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.

Tags: Books, English, Everybody

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

Tags: Book, Film, Opinion

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.

Tags: Job, Movies, Someone

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

Tags: Children, Freedom, Give

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

Tags: Good, Start, Writing

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

Tags: Books, Mind, Read

Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.

Tags: Escapism, Fantasy, Perhaps

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

Tags: Comedy, Humor, Shows

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

Tags: Ask, Books, Speak

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

Tags: Fun, Honest, Writing

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

Tags: Books, Creeps, Degree

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

Tags: Between, Give, Writer

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Tags: Movies, Thought, Until
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