Jasper Fforde Quotes

There's a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.

I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.

There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

The Ned Kelly is definitely the coolest of all the crime fiction awards, and if you think about it, it's the only one that's given for an entire continent.

I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.

Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.

The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

To map the Governor General's Award is to map both the past and the future of Canadian literature, and to be nominated for my first book is wonderful.

I was delighted when Booktrust asked me to be chair of judges for the Booktrust Teenage Prize 2010.

I'm not sure that the culture of literary prizes is always a good thing, but while there are literary prizes, it's nice to be nominated.

Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.

It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.

I have become very critical of the whole book award system and could preach on that subject for quite a while, but I do know what an award can mean to a writer early in her career. It can give an essential validation.

When I look at Perfidia, I think, "That's a Pulitzer Prize winner. That's a National Book Award winner." It's not going to get it. It's going to be shelved in crime and it's just the way it is. I've done something that no one else has ever done; I've started out as a mystery writer, a police writer, and a crime writer, and I became something entirely different.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

My father always had doubts about the Booker prize, although they evaporated on the announcement that he had won it.

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

I have this very moment finished reading a novel called The Vicar of Wakefield [by Oliver Goldsmith].... It appears to me, to be impossible any person could read this book through with a dry eye and yet, I don't much like it.... There is but very little story, the plot is thin, the incidents very rare, the sentiments uncommon, the vicar is contented, humble, pious, virtuous--but upon the whole the book has not at all satisfied my expectations.

Steve MCQueen created an entire family to tell one man's tale and I am delighted that so many of this family have also been recognised today. I am hugely grateful to the Academy for this great honour, and, of course, to Solomon Northup for sharing his story through his breathtaking book.

If I could play any character from the book though it’d be Church. Who wouldn’t want to be a cat?!

People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.

Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.