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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
Author
Novelist
Writer
Communities
Online
Loneliness
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Community

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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'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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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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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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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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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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