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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.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.
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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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I like autumn. The drama of it the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
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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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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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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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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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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
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