Jasper Fforde Quotes

You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

If you always dreamed of writing a novel or a memoir, and you used to love to write, and were pretty good at it, will it break your heart if it turns out you never got around to it? If you wake up one day at eighty, will you feel nonchalant that something always took precedence over a daily commitment to discovering your creative spirit? If not--if this very thought fills you with regret--then what are you waiting for?

You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

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

The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

You feel the call. That's the important thing. Now answer it as fully as you can. Take the risk to let all that is in you, out. Escape into the open.

Writing a poem is discovering.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.

My muse changes all the time because I think every designer is a bit of a muse for themselves in a way - they just don't want to say it.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me.

I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

Writing is the most important thing in my life - above marriage.

A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.

I didn't know until high school that I was interested in writing in any real way. But there was this boy that I had a crush on, and I used to tell him all the time what I felt about him. Finally he gave me a blank journal and said to write it all down - and it didn't take me very long to realize how much I loved writing.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It's not for me to talk about.

That's the whole thing about fashion: it's fantasy. To dip into that at 18 and 19 was amazing.