Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris
Joanne Michèle Sylvie Harris, MBEis an English author, best known for her award-winning novel Chocolat which was later turned into a successful film. The film adaption was released in 2000, directed by Lasse Hallström and starring Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin and Johnny Depp. It was nominated for 8 BAFTAS and 5 Oscars...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 July 1964
people fascinated
I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.
mother jobs fun
From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.
children thinking parent
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.
criticism way coping
As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.
light laughing literature
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.
book people causes
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
book writing leaving
Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.
tamed
A thing named is a thing tamed.
pioneers fiction use
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.
loneliness expression community
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
mother want-something ethics
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.
gang cannons bits
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.
curious
I'm insatiably curious.
feelings hiding incapable
I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.