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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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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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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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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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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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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 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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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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Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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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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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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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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