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I carried recipes in my head like maps.
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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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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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I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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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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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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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 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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This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
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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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The right circumstances sometimes happen of their own accord, slyly, without fanfare, without warning. Layman's alchemy. . . . The magic of everyday things.
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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
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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.)
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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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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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