Quotes About Creativity

How about this,' I said. 'We modify our plans with regard to ongoing facts as they become known to us, then remodify them as the situation unfolds. 'You mean make it all up as we go along?' asked Perkins. 'Right.

Children are such consummate liars

Intentamos que el arte sea perfecto porque en la vida real jamás lo logramos

Their father, Polonius, was in a 'have a go' mood and joined in. He also made changes, and together they renamed it: The Tragedy of the Very Witty and Not Remotely Boring Polonius, Father of the Noble Laertes, Who Avenges His Fair Sister, Ophelia, Driven Mad by the Callous, Murderous and Outrageously Disrespectful Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "What was it like?" "With Polonius? Very . . . wordy.

I don't back out of a long and happy make-believe union just when things start getting rocky

A Uncorn isn't for page twenty-seven, it's for eternity.

I had sequenced Pickwick at home using nothing more complex than average kitchen utensils and cultivated her in a denucleated goose egg.

Sometimes living in the BookWorld is like living in Legoland.

Jasper Fforde

Life, I decided, would be good, and more than that, unusual .

I had learned from my mother's many letters that Mycroft had invented a method for sending pizzas by fax

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

The problem with pianos," I began, "is that there aren't enough to go around. Lots of people in the BookWorld play them, they frequently appear in the narrative, and they're often used as plot devices. Yet for an unfathomable reason that no one can fully explain, there are only fifteen to cover the entire BookWorld.

O brave new world, that has such stories in't!

That 'gleeful darting of the house martins' stuff sounds suspiciously like the work of Jade-under-Lime's resident verse mercenary, Gerald Henna-Rose.

There were no characters or events written in, which was a shame—considering the work he did on the world itself, this might have been a bestseller.

saw a vision of the world and all the options there could be!

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own grey minds.

Why dig a hole in the garden, when potatoes grow wild in Finland?

Jasper Fforde

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

Writing is a subtle art that is reached mostly by self-discovery and experimentation.

Whoever controls the supply of metaphor controls fiction! . . . Metaphor should be controlled. A glut on the market would make fiction overtly highbrow, painfully ambiguous, and potentially unreadable.

fiction always surpasses reality but reality is always richer than fiction.