Joanne Harris Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“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.”

“I'm insatiably curious.”

“I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.”

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

“I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.”

“If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.”

“It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.”