Joanne harris

I'm insatiably curious.

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.

If you can actually get someone to sit on the edge of their seat and feel nervous if there's a knock at the door, then you've done something pretty terrific as a writer.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

A little tantrum in real life seems so much bigger online.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

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.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

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.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.