Joanne Harris Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Editing, Relax

  "Joanne Harris: My desktop". Interview with Ben Johncock, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

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  Challenges, Trying, Want

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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 am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.

  Joanne Harris

  Toasts

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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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• 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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• My heroes and heroines are often unlikely people who are dragged into situations without meaning to become involved, or people with a past that has never quite left them. They are often isolated, introspective people, often confrontational or anarchic in some way, often damaged or secretly unhappy or incomplete.

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  Hero, Past, People

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• I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

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  Dream, Sound, Stories

  "This much I know: Joanne Harris". Interview with Emma John, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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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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  Criticism, Way, Coping

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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.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Jobs, Fun

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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.

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  Queens, Cat, Night

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

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

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  Book, People, Causes

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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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  Children, Thinking, Focus

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

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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.

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  Wine, Son, Fire

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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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  Mean, People, Psychological

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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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• 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.

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  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.

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  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.

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  Book, Fiction, Next

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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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  Money, Jobs, Work

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

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  Cities, People, Constant

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