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Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Joanne Harris

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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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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...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 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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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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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.
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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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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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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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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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I carried recipes in my head like maps.
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I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.
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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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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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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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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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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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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.
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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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