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

~Joanne Harris

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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.

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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.

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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.'

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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.

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I find littering very annoying. It's a minor but also a major thing: a society that litters is one that also has so little respect for the environment and, consequently, other people. If we had clean streets, a lot of other things would be fixed almost effortlessly.

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Online communities are an expression of loneliness.

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

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I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

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

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: July 3rd, 1964

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