One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Jasper Fforde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock Holmes wore a deerstalker and smoked a ridiculously large pipe. The problem wasn't just confined to the classics. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of life looking like Daniel Radcliffe.”
“For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.”
“Fanfiction isn't copying - it's a celebration. One long party, from the first capital letter to the last full stop!”
“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”
“the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.”
“...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.”
“Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.”
“Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.”
“To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise.”
“Literature is claimed to be a mirror of the world,” I said, “but the Outlanders are fooling themselves. The BookWorld is as orderly as people in the RealWorld *hope* their own world to be—it isn’t a mirror, it’s an aspiration.”
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