Jasper Fforde Quotes

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

You don't break ground by doing the same thing over and over and over. That's like standing in place. You have to risk to gain it all.

There is an inherent creative restlessness at Laika where we always want to challenge ourselves.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

Writing is like building a bridge while you're on it. If you step forward you fall off and there's nothing in front of you.

An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?

To make something really great and different and interesting means taking risks and following these ideas in your head.

All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

I'm an artist, and I like the risk - I'm not in it for the sure things.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Creativity takes courage.

The pioneers get all the arrows.