British - Author | July 3, 1964 -
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
Joanne Harris
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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.
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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.
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We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
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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.
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I think everybody has a secret life.
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I am not at all a chocoholic. I would rather eat anchovy toast.
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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.
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The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
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I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.
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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.
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