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. Joanne Harris More Quotes by Joanne Harris More Quotes From Joanne Harris I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast. Joanne Harris toasts The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark. Joanne Harris mark ends book 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. Joanne Harris focus children thinking Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is Joanne Harris alternatives survival sometimes Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around. Joanne Harris ancient modern difficult 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. Joanne Harris hero people past I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like. Joanne Harris incapable hiding feelings I'm insatiably curious. Joanne Harris curious 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. Joanne Harris shadow mother home Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings. Joanne Harris leaving writing book 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 makes you think about food. Joanne Harris fasting make-you-think thinking If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language. Joanne Harris important want culture Of course I didn't pioneer the use of food in fiction: it has been a standard literary device since Chaucer and Rabelais, who used food wonderfully as a metaphor for sensuality. Joanne Harris pioneers use fiction 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. Joanne Harris chocolate temptation dream 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. Joanne Harris mentor long thinking The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it. Joanne Harris mark stranger past Online communities are an expression of loneliness. Joanne Harris community loneliness expression I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained. Joanne Harris ideas 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. Joanne Harris groups light war ...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people. Joanne Harris money work jobs
