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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
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I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
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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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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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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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This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
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Everything comes home, my mother used to say every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped it's part of what makes us who we are.
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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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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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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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The process of giving is without limits.
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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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I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.
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