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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.
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Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
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To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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Anything that can be dreamed is true.
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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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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 carried recipes in my head like maps.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.
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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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But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
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I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.
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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
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