Quote

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

Joanne Harris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
Author
Novelist
Writer
Damn
Dead
Give
Everything
Giving

More quotes by Joanne Harris

Image
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.
Joanne Harris
Image
What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
Joanne Harris
Image
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
Joanne Harris
Image
Places have their own characters. . . . But the people begin to look the same.
Joanne Harris
Image
You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.
Joanne Harris
Image
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.
Joanne Harris
Image
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
Joanne Harris
Image
Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark. Nat Parson's a gobshite. Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.
Joanne Harris
Image
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.
Joanne Harris
Image
I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
Joanne Harris
Image
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.
Joanne Harris
Image
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.
Joanne Harris
Image
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.
Joanne Harris
Image
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!
Joanne Harris
Image
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
Joanne Harris
Image
I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
Joanne Harris
Image
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.)
Joanne Harris
Image
...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.
Joanne Harris
Image
Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
Joanne Harris
Image
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.
Joanne Harris