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Joanne Harris

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    Joanne Harris

    A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

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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.

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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.

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    A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

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    Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

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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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    Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

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    Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

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    Death should be a celebration. Like a birthday. I want to go up like a rocket when my time comes, and fall down in a cloud of stars, and hear everyone go: ahh!

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    Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

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    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 part of what makes us who we are.

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    For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.

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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.

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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.

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    Guilleaume left La Praline with a small bag of florentines in his pocket; before he had turned the corner of avenue des Francs Bourgeois I saw him stoop to offer one to the dog. A pat, a bark, a wagging of the short stubby tail. As I said, some people never have to think about giving.

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    I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

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    I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

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    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. I shall be rampant.

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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.

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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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    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.

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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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    If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

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    If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

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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.

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    If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

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    I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

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    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 go, and the river brings you home.

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    I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.

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    I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

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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.

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

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    I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

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

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    I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

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    I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

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    In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

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    In my dreams I gorge on chocolates, I roll in chocolates, and their texture is not brittle but soft as flesh, like a thousand mouths on my body, devouring me in fluttering small bites. To die beneath their tender gluttony seems the culmination of every temptation I have ever known.

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    I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

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    I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

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    I think everybody has a secret life.

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    I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

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    It isn't just a village. The houses aren't just places to live. Everything belongs to everybody. Everyone belongs to everyone else. Even a single person can make a difference.

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    I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

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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.

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    Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

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    Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

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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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    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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    Nat Parson says it's the devil's mark." "Nat Parson's a gobshite." Maddy was torn between a natural feeling of sacrilege and a deep admiration of anyone who dared call a parson 'gobshite.