Joanne Harris Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Care, Want

• You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Broken Inside, Needs

  Joanne Harris (2010). “Blackberry Wine”, p.65, Random House

• 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.

  Joanne Harris

  Real, Writing, Views

• Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

  Joanne Harris

  Book, Writing, Leaving

• The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Littles, Madness

  Joanne Harris (2010). “Blackberry Wine”, p.210, Random House

• 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.

  Joanne Harris

  Mother, Jobs, Fun

• ...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.

  Joanne Harris

  Money, Jobs, Work

• I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Needs, Laptops

• I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

  Joanne Harris

  Writing, Editing, Relax

  "Joanne Harris: My desktop". Interview with Ben Johncock, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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