Joanne Harris quotes - page 3

Joanne Harris is a British author best known for her novel "Chocolat," which was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film. Her works often blend elements of magic, folklore, and contemporary life, captivating readers around the world. She continues to write award-winning novels exploring themes of identity, family, and transformation. Here are 80 of her quotes:

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

Joanne Harris

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

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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

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

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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

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

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The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

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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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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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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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I think everybody has a secret life.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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I'm insatiably curious.

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

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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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