"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

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“Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical truths. So how do we decide what's what, and does it even matter?”

Source : Lauren Slater (2000). “Lying: A Metaphorical Memoir”, Random House Incorporated
“Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.”
“The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-kingâ€™s return!”
“In our business, except in media buying, there are few economies of scale. Client perception of creative agencies is that the bigger they are, the worse they are.”
“I never invest in anything that I don't understand.”
“I think it's terribly important to reach out and understand all the different types of life and the different types of challenges that are present around the world. And I think the more people who can do that the better our planet will probably be.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.”
“[A] free government . . . cannot be supported without Virtue.”

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