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
thinking outsiders ifs
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
thinking secret secret-life
I think everybody has a secret life.
survival alternatives sometimes
Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is
money jobs real
...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.
ideas
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
believe thinking afterlife
I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.
real writing views
One of the things that writing has taught me is that fiction has a life of its own. Fictional places are sometimes more real than the view from our bedroom window. Fictional people can sometimes become as close to us as our loved ones.
facts facts-of-life comfortable
Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
evil chocolate battle
The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.
loss thinking hell
To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.
book fiction next
I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.
men numbers tree
A man may plant a tree for a number of reasons. Perhaps he likes trees. Perhaps he wants shelter. Or perhaps he knows that someday he may need the firewood.
mean people psychological
People reveal so much of their mental processes online, simply because the psychological effect of anonymity just means that a whole raft of inhibitions are left alone when people log on.
world lasts firsts
This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.