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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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I carried recipes in my head like maps.
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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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A thing named is a thing tamed.
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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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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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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.
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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
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Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
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Anything that can be dreamed is true.
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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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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Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
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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 tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
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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 speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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