Jasper Fforde

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”

“So my humor, I'd say, comes from a mixture of lowbrow comedy shows and highbrow theater. It's an interesting mix.”

“Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.”

“Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.”

“I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.”

“Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.”