A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.
From Joanne Harris
I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.
I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.
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.
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.
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.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.
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.
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
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