Joanne Harris famous quotes

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
-- Joanne Harris

#Sweet #Heart #Simple

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.
-- Joanne Harris

#People #Waiting #Sitting

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Letting Go #Home #Swimming

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Leaving #Chance #Fragments

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

#Life Is #Celebrate #Ends

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Inspiration #Excess #Loud

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

#Procrastination #Degrees #Paranoia

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Dog #Thinking #Giving

You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
-- Joanne Harris

#Writing #Broken #Needs

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Writing #Want #Facts

Divination is a means of telling ourselves what we already know.
-- Joanne Harris

#Mean

A man who casts no shadow isn't really a man at all.
-- Joanne Harris

#Men #Shadow #Casts

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.
-- Joanne Harris

#Eye #Looks #World

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.
-- Joanne Harris

#Book #Heart #Soul

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!
-- Joanne Harris

#Stars #Fall #Clouds

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

#Stars #Sea #Magic

The wind always brings us back to the same wall
-- Joanne Harris

#Wall #Wind

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.
-- Joanne Harris

#Air #Sunlight

A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
-- Joanne Harris

#Men #Numbers #Tree

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.
-- Joanne Harris

#Queens #Cat #Night

Love not often, but forever.
-- Joanne Harris

#Forever

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?
-- Joanne Harris

#Mean #Faults #Innocence

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

#Real #Tantrums #Littles

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

#Ancient #Modern #Difficult

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
-- Joanne Harris

#Horse #Wish #Beggar

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Drama #Autumn #Years

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.
-- Joanne Harris

#Littles #Spirit

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

#Wife #Library #Pay

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 the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
-- Joanne Harris

#Real #Writing #Views

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

#Freak #Fit #Standing Out

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.
-- Joanne Harris

#Pain #Anticipation #Misery

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

#Thinking #Make You Think #Fasting

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.
-- Joanne Harris

#Past #Stranger #Mark

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

#Dream #Temptation #Chocolate

A named thing is a tamed thing.
-- Joanne Harris

Anything that can be dreamed is true.
-- Joanne Harris

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

#Book #Ends #Mark

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 a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.
-- Joanne Harris

#Wine #Son #Fire

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.
-- Joanne Harris

#World #Lasts #Firsts

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Mean #People #Psychological

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Loss #Thinking #Hell

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 indecision.
-- Joanne Harris

#Evil #Chocolate #Battle

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Book #Fiction #Next

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

#Facts #Facts Of Life

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

#Cities #People #Constant

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

#Believe #Thinking #Afterlife

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
-- Joanne Harris

#Ideas

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Girl #Book #Reading

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
-- Joanne Harris

#Survival #Alternatives #Sometimes

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.
-- Joanne Harris

#Beautiful #Eye #Men

I think everybody has a secret life.
-- Joanne Harris

#Thinking #Secret #Secret Life

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

#Book #People #Causes

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.
-- Joanne Harris

#Light #Laughing #Way

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.
-- Joanne Harris

#Challenges #Trying #Want

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.
-- Joanne Harris

#Dream #Sound #Stories

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

#Writing #Editing #Relax

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
-- Joanne Harris

#Writing #Needs #Laptops

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

#Toasts

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?
-- Joanne Harris

#Liars #Fiction

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

#People