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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 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'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
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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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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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...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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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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