Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
Joanne Harris
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
Author
Novelist
Writer
Light
Respond
Great
Response
Way
Cry
Like
Laugh
Laughing
Turn
Literature
Eliciting
Turns
Proxy
More quotes by Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
Joanne Harris
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
A thing named is a thing tamed.
Joanne Harris
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
Joanne Harris
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark. Nat Parson's a gobshite. Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
Joanne Harris
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
Joanne Harris
Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
Joanne Harris
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.)
Joanne Harris
The process of giving is without limits.
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris
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.
Joanne Harris