Jasper Fforde, One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing Quotes

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats.

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.