I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn’t very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels. Jasper Fforde Read Quote
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 Read Quote
There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. Jasper Fforde Read Quote
I hope that in my books there’s an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live. Jasper Fforde Read Quote
When you’re an author, you’re always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home. Jasper Fforde Read Quote
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they’ll have long lists of books. Jasper Fforde Read Quote
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 Read Quote
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened. Jasper Fforde Read Quote
