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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.

Joanne Harris

Light, Laughing, Literature

"Chocolat and chips". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2001.

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I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

Joanne Harris

Book, People, Causes

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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.

Joanne Harris

Mother, Want Something, Ethics

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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

Joanne Harris

Loneliness, Expression, Community

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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.

Joanne Harris

Thinking, Long, Mentor

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Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality.

Joanne Harris

Pioneers, Fiction, Use

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A thing named is a thing tamed.

Joanne Harris

Tamed

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I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

Joanne Harris

Speak, Silent

"Runemarks". Book by Joanne Harris, August 2, 2007.

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The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

Joanne Harris

Writing, Littles, Madness

Joanne Harris (2010). “Blackberry Wine”, p.210, Random House

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Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Joanne Harris

Queens, Cat, Night

Joanne Harris (2007). “The lollipop shoes”, Doubleday UK

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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.

Joanne Harris

Morning, Heart, Mirrors

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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.

Joanne Harris

War, Light, Groups

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All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

Joanne Harris

Memories, Heart, Two

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Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves. God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

Joanne Harris

Dog, Thinking, People

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Was it my fault that I got out of hand? --Loki

Joanne Harris

Hands, Faults

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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.

Joanne Harris

Children, Thinking, Focus

"Joanne Harris: My family values". Interview with Michelle Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif.

Joanne Harris

Suicide, Rude, Needs

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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?

Joanne Harris

Mean, Presumption Of Innocence, Faults

Joanne Harris (2008). “Runemarks”, p.105, Random House

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The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

Joanne Harris

Giving, Damn, Don't Give A Damn

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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.

Joanne Harris

Book, Fiction, Next

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I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

Joanne Harris

Cities, People, Constant

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I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

Joanne Harris

Girl, Reading, Book

"IFOA 2012: Joanne Harris". Interview with Alyshah Hasham, www.thestar.com. October 21, 2012.

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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.

Joanne Harris

Mean, People, Psychological

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Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

Joanne Harris

Wine, Son, Fire

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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.

Joanne Harris

Money, Jobs, Work

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