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Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

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Joanne Harris
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: July 3
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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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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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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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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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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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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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Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
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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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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.
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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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Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.
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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
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As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
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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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Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
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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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One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
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