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Jasper Fforde Quotes

When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: January 11, 1961

Topics

People Thought Movies Just Happened

There is energy and power in a crisis.

Power Energy Crisis

Everybody knows I'm not a clay-court specialist. I'm not feeling so well on this surface.

Angelique Kerber

Feeling Surface Well Knows Everybody

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.

Revolution White Politicians Poets

I love food, but if I find a restaurant I like in a new city, I can eat every meal there, and sometimes I do... and even sometimes the same dish.

Love Food City Restaurant Find New

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!' 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

Day Crazy Thought Stone Outfit Kind

In the long run, you make your own luck - good, bad, or indifferent.

Good Luck Long You Bad Run

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Problem Routine Will Employment Full

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Me Thought You Know Show Role

I left 'Coronation Street' so I could spend more time with the kids because it was difficult getting a work life balance.

Debra Stephenson

Life Work Time Balance Street More

I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.

Vision World Blood Being Books Than

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn't breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children's mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

Mother Children Time People Anxiety

I tend to overwrite; I need a good editor.

Good Need Editor Tend

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