As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I like literature that you respond to in some way. You laugh, you cry, you turn the light on - that's great,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
“For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share
“There's no such thing as a trivial thing. Everything costs; it all adds up until finally the balance shifts and we're gone again, back… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
“Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.” — Joanne Harris Copy Share
And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry.… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
“Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place” — Joanne Harris Copy Share
I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
I let it go. It's like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
“No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no… — Joanne Harris Copy Share
