John Harrison's Quotes

I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.

If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.

If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.

It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.

Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.

Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.

We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends.

Music moves society more than most people realize. In my opinion, it's a soft manipulator of influence and change.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.

Don't fall into the trap of having to have everything perfect to write or wait until the mood strikes you. If you want it as a job, treat it like a job, and just as you don't go to work only when you feel like it, you have to condition yourself to sit and write even when the ideas don't flow.

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character.

People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room.