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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
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Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)
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We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
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And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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Anything that can be dreamed is true.
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.
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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
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If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
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The process of giving is without limits.
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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