Thursday Next Quotes:

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

- Douglas Adams

source: Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Original Radio Scripts”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

topic: Hitchhiking, Thursday, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Ford Prefect, Arthur Dent

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 3, sc. 5, l. 153

topic: Gratitude, Proud, Juliet, Romeo And Juliet Juliet, Thursday Next

After all, reading is arguably a far more creative and imaginative process than writing; when the reader creates emotion in their head, or the colors of the sky during the setting sun, or the smell of a warm summer's breeze on their face, they should reserve as much praise for themselves as they do for the writer - perhaps more.

- Jasper Fforde

source: Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.51, Penguin

topic: Summer, Reading, Healing, Thursday Next

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.

- Jasper Fforde

source: Jasper Fforde (2004). “The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.50, Penguin

topic: Book, Technology, Looks, Thursday Next

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.

- Edgar Allan Poe

topic: Rap, Doors, Midnight, Quaint, Alliteration

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Book, Needs, Attention, Thursday Next

...the landscape inside Lord of the Rings was so stunning and so stupendous that it could be absorbed as a form of nourishment.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Landscape, Lord, Form, Thursday Next

Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Moving, Said, Mime, Thursday Next

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

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Comedy, Genre, Dangerous, Jolly, Thursday Next

Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take even the most walk-shy tourists to their chosen destination. As a bonus, there is traditionally at least one murder on board each trip--a "consideration" to the head steward will ensure that it is not you.

- Jasper Fforde

topic: Journey, Rivers, Water, Metaphoric, Thursday Next

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surprising, gives my soul such loath despising, Here I plot my temper rising, rising from my jail of text. “Get me out!” I said, advising, “Pluck me from this jail of text- or I swear I’ll wring your neck!

- Jasper Fforde

source: "The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next". Book by Jasper Fforde, May 1, 2009.

topic: Jail, Giving, Soul, Thursday Next

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

- Jasper Fforde

source: Jasper Fforde (2007). “Thursday Next: First Among Sequels: A Thursday Next Novel”, p.307, Penguin

topic: Reading, Eggs, Long, Brighter Future, Thursday Next

It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

- Jasper Fforde

source: Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

topic: Thursday Next