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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines
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But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair. I never did, snapped Loki crossly. Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
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Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
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Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
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This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
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I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.
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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 think everybody has a secret life.
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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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Anything that can be dreamed is true.
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Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
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I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
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I'd rather be a freak than a clone.
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Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
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A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
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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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And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.
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I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great, it's eliciting a response by proxy.
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