Quotes by Joanne Harris

About Joanne Harris:

Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris is an English author, best known for her award-winning novel Chocolat which was later turned into a successful film.
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The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Joanne Harris

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

We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.

Joanne Harris

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

Joanne Harris

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

Joanne Harris

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

I had a great grandmother who believed in so many strange superstitions. She used to tell the future from the things that catch on to the hem of your skirt when you've been sewing, and different colored threads would mean different things... Of cours...

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I think everybody has a secret life.

Joanne Harris

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

Joanne Harris

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

Joanne Harris

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

Writing books and being paid for it - it's not like winning the Lottery. You can't suddenly go, 'Yippee!' and start throwing tenners in the air. I've done pretty well out of it, but certainly not enough to say, 'Right, that's me set up for life.'

Joanne Harris

When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.

Joanne Harris

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.

Joanne Harris

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

Joanne Harris

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

Joanne Harris

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 anarchi...

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

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

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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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The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.

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Author Bio

  • NameJoanne Harris
  • DescriptionBritish author
  • BornJuly 3, 1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksChocolat; Five Quarters Of The Orange
  • AwardsMember Of The Order Of The British Empire