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Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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The process of giving is without limits.
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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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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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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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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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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
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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 love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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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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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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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
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