It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
From Jasper Fforde
Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.
The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest.
If you give children the freedom to do very little, quite a lot will do very little.
When I was about 10 or 11, I realised that people made movies; until then, I had thought they just happened.
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.
When you're an author, you're always two people. Jasper the writer is different from Jasper the person at home.
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
I have a very varied taste in music. Everything from rap to classical to Latino to Rat Pack to jazz.
2 perspectives
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