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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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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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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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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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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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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.
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I think everybody has a secret life.
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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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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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But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
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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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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.
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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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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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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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