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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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The process of giving is without limits.
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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 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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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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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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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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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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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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I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
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I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
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I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
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I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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