Zitat des Tages von Jasper Fforde:
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I started writing short stories, sort of as treatments for the film scripts, and I found I enjoyed writing short stories far more than I enjoyed writing film scripts. Then the short stories got longer and longer and suddenly, I had novels.
I'm not of the opinion that the next logical step for a book is for it to be made into a film.
Every book should have a romance.
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative thought, but it doesn't help when it comes to concentration. And writing needs concentration - lots of it.
So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.
In the creative industries, there are few things more exciting than a zinger - a thought, idea, line, plot device - anything really, that just totally works in a fundamentally new and fresh way. It's like a uniquely lovely melody or a new taste idea in cooking. Something special, something new, something wonderful. They're also very rare.
I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.
I just write books, and I do it without any notion of what I should do or shouldn't do.
If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
Perhaps fantasy offers imaginative escapism more than other genres.
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
