{"author":"Jasper Fforde","author_id":"Jasper+Fforde","total_quotes":118,"quotes":[{"text":"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["books","jane-eyre"],"id":2348,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"The only way to write is to write. Writers write. And when they’ve written, they write some more.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["writers","writing"],"id":2687,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years,' she announced with some small sense of achievement. 'I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["education","grades","grading","teachers","teaching"],"id":3764,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Books' - Snell smiled - 'are a kind of magic.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["books","magic","reading"],"id":7660,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witness, landlord, arresting officer and judge had all been called Alfred Tennyson, a law had been passed compelling each namesake to carry a registration number tattooed behind the ear. It hadn't been well received--few really practical law-enforcement measures ever are.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["followers","law-enforcement","names","poets"],"id":15223,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["description","pictures","poetry","portrait","simile","words"],"id":16095,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["absence","dark","disrespect","light"],"id":23153,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Outside Styx's apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and the barrier between reality and make-believe had not yet hardened into the shell that cocoons us in adult life. The barrier was soft, pliable and, for a moment, thanks to the kindness of a stranger and the power of a good storytelling voice, I made the short journey--and returned.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["books","characters","classic","reality","storytelling"],"id":37197,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["philosophy"],"id":44258,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Humans like stories. Humans need stories. Stories are good. Stories work. Story clarifies and captures the essence of the human spirit. Story, in all its forms—of life, of love, of knowledge—has traced the upward surge of mankind. And story, you mark my words, will be with the last human to draw breath.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["books","fiction","human-nature","stories"],"id":50895,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":118,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}