Jasper Fforde Quote

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.

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing: A Thursday Next Novel (ed. Penguin, 2011) - ISBN: 9781101476000

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...

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...

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...

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...