A biography for Joanne Harrishasn’t been written yet.
“There's also a lot of random stuff about poetry, flowers and lute music, plus kissing and cuddling (lots of this), wearing similar outfits, talking incessantly about the current object of devotion, and generally losing one's faculties.”
“If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.”
“A named thing is a tamed thing.”
“The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.”
“I think everybody has a secret life.”
“It's never too late to come home," he said, and pulled me gently, insistently toward him."All you have to do...is stop moving away.”
“I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.”
“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.”
“Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.”
“I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.”
“I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.”
“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.”
“For me, the magic of Hawaii comes from the stillness, the sea, the stars.”
“Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.”
“I was convinced I'd hate Twitter - but I've come to like it very much. I use it mostly to keep in touch with friends and colleagues I wish I could see more often - I sometimes feel a little isolated living in Yorkshire, and it's nice to have the contact.”
“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.”
“Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves.God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The advantage of travel is that after a while you begin to realize that wherever you go, most people aren't really all that much different.”