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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
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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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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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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'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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I think everybody has a secret life.
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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.
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People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
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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 liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.
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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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