Jasper Fforde Quotes

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.

And meanwhile, the storytellers like me and Anderson, Silverberg... we tell stories. People like them. They want to know how it comes out, they want to know what the ending is.

I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

A novel is about people.

It's always fun to play bad characters.

But after all, the villains are the salt in the soup of a story.

Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?

I love telling the stories that we tell. I love playing the characters that we play.

I want to be a part of stories.

I love to read stories. And I don't to get to talk about my favorite novels very often in my job.

No matter what kind of writing you do, it's always the details that make the story.

I'm not interested in hearing yet another rapper tell me why he's the best. Why not tell a story set in a specific time and place? Create some characters, add a little bit of action and you're good to go.

Fiction is organized gossip.

I think I do more fiction than autobiography.

'One by Two' is a film about two people who live in the same city and do certain things that affect each other's lives. Yet, they are strangers. It's difficult to put the film in any particular genre or box.

The writing is only ever the attractive thing about a part. And also if all the elements within the writing come together - the character and the structure and the narrative - if they are all there then you become excited.

To me, I'm a storyteller.

From an early age, my favorite thing to read was novels. For years, when I was writing only nonfiction, still I was reading almost exclusively novels. It's weird to be producing something that you don't consume. It feels really alienating.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

If your characters are two-dimensional and your plot uncompelling, it won't matter how incredibly detailed and believable your fantasy world might be.

Any fictional story will take things from real events.