I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending. — 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
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing,… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or… — 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
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
