Joanne Harris Quotes

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• The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.
• To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
• Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.
• The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful…
• 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…
• Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
• One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than…
• I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.
• I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
• I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
• 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.
• 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…
• This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
• 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…
• Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.
• Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
• You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just…
• The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
• I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.
• If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

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