Jasper Fforde Quotes

Once I started writing, I realized just how much I really enjoyed it. I was kinda good at it, so I kept at it.

It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

I started writing poems, and when I first tried prose, I wrote bad articles and essays and columns, and I didn't have a handle on it. I didn't go to a school that really taught you how to write that stuff.

I learned to write by writing.

I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

Hopefully I'm learning a lesson from every new thing I write, whether it features guys in spandex or not.

I hope I remember everything," said Toni. "You won't," said Trapp. "That's how you learn. But after you make the same mistake one, or two, or five times, you'll eventually get it. And then you'll make new mistakes.

One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style

I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.

You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

I think as long as you learn from your mistakes, and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

But I do think that when people say 'a learning curve,' they make a mistake. Learning to me always seems to go in a straight, ignorant line and then, every so often, takes a jump straight upward.

You learn something from everything you do. With every project I've ever done, I've always treated it like I'm still in school.

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

I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

Arrogant or critical people are often people with low self-esteem who are afraid of taking risks. That's because, if you learn something new, you are then required to make mistakes in order to fully understand what you have learned.

When I first started I didn't know a lot about the job, so I kinda had to figure it out by wire, ya know? It was hit and miss, I made mistakes, and fortunately I was able to recover from most of 'em. But I promised myself if I ever get to a point where I can help somebody that's trying to learn how to do this, that I would try to do that.

Obviously it won't all run smoothly. But it's important to awknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn fromt them.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes ... as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.

I don't know if I'll ever be a master at anything, but I think that's a mistake for me personally. I don't know how much it's about the journey, but it's more about the process.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.