Quotes from Jasper Fforde

Every book should have a romance.

There are a lot of idiots in this country, and they deserve representation as much as the next man.

You're just a huge romantic at heart, aren't you?""If there's cash involved, I'm anything you want me to be.

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

You're talking about gold and silver, cash and securities. I'm talking about the sheer beauty of the land, the value of unpolluted parkland made wild and staying wild forever.

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

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

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

Sometimes I wonder if the human race isn't collectively as mad as a sack of door knobs.

Honor is kind of what you get when you weaponize manners

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled, that's all.

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.

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.

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.

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

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.

Don't ever call me mad, Mycroft. I'm not mad. I'm just ... well, differently moraled , that's all.

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

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

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 Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.

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.

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

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