Jasper Fforde Quotes

Make something new, and define territory that's never been. I fall in love with shows because I've never see that before. I fall in love with new vocabularies.

Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.

Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.

It's so important to me that I feel like I'm doing something that's never been done before, whether that's in the show, or I'm writing a song. I can exist in this little box here, but I have to do something new with it.

Of course you can't do anything completely original.

If it feels like you're aiming for something too familiar, and you're not having a primary new experience, then what's the point of making that movie? It's been done before, so try to find something new out of it.

As a songwriter, you always want to search for something that's right in front of you that you can twist into something new.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.

I watch people who are not driven by creativity any more, and I think how dull it must be to produce the same kind of thing. If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

I never liked to copy things that are out there. I always like to come up with something new, something different.

I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

I have to believe everything I write is brand new and I'm writing in this way about these people in a completely new situation for the very first time.

I really strive to bring something new to each book. I don't want to write the same book over and over again.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

What I feel like science fiction fans respond to is just people trying to hit them with something new, something they haven't seen. And if you do that you'll be okay.