Zitate von Jasper Fforde

„Männliches Schuldverweigerungs-Syndrom", erklärte mein Vater. "Von 2054 an ist das eine medizinisch anerkannte Krankheit.“

—  Jasper Fforde

„There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says… it's payback time!“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Something Rotten

„I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Lost in a Good Book

„If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction-and ultimately, without a major resolution.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Something Rotten

„Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Der Fall Jane Eyre

„Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch First Among Sequels

„Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just… well,, that's all.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Der Fall Jane Eyre

„Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Der Fall Jane Eyre

„Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Der Fall Jane Eyre

„If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch The Big Over Easy

„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, buch The Well of Lost Plots

„Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch First Among Sequels

„Okay, this is the wisdom. First, time spent on reconnaissanse is never wasted. Second, almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon. And finally, there is no problem on Earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.“

—  Jasper Fforde

„Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch The Woman Who Died a Lot

„Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Something Rotten

„Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Lost in a Good Book

„The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.“

—  Jasper Fforde

„Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch First Among Sequels

„Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.“

—  Jasper Fforde, buch Lost in a Good Book