Joanne Harris Quotes
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Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.
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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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The process of giving is without limits.
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I'm insatiably curious.
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Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.
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What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
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A named thing is a tamed thing.
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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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Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
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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 think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
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I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
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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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In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.
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Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.
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If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
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It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.
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Anything that can be dreamed is true.
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I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.
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If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.
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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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Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.
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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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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
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Places do not lose their identity, however far one travels. It is the heart that begins to erode over time. The face in the hotel mirror seems blurred some mornings, as if by too many casual looks. By ten the sheets will be laundered, the carpet swept. The names on the hotel registers change as we pass. We leave no trace as we pass on. Ghostlike, we cast no shadow.
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