Joanne Harris Quotes

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.

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.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

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

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. The lenient shepherd may find his flock unruly, definant. I cannot afford to be lenient.

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

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