"Why didn't he say so directly?" asked Sprockett, not unreasonably. "This is Fiction," I explained. "The exigency of drama requires events to be clou… - Jasper Fforde

Winter isn’t a season – it’s a calling.

"How is the book going?" I asked returning to my knitting.
"The self-help stuff?"
"The magnum opus."
Landen looked thoughtful for a moment and then said, "More opus than magnum. I'm trying to figure out whether the lack of progress is writer's block, procrastination, idleness or just plain incompetence."

Having to mix with dimwits is hideously boring. Great-Uncle Mycroft put it best when he said that for a genius this planet is excruciatingly dull, only made briefly more illuminating when another genius happens along.