Joanne Harris Quotes

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

I'm a great fan of taking my laptop out and about.

Life throws up enough road blocks to keep you from writing; you can't be adding to them yourself by saying you can only write in one specific place. I'm in New York half the time and Texas half the time, and I work wherever - in my computer bag I have some foam ear plugs that I can put in.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

No music. No rituals. At home I write in my office or on the laptop in the kitchen where our puppy likes to sleep, and I love his company. But I've trained myself to be able to work anywhere, and I write on trains, planes, in automobiles (if I'm not the driver), airports, hotel rooms. I travel often. If I couldn't write wherever I was I would get little done. I also can write in short bursts. Fifteen minutes are enough to move a story forward.

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.

I can write anywhere.

I can write pretty much anywhere.

My two must-haves are my cell phone and my MacBook Pro laptop, which allows me to update my Web site from wherever I am, whether I'm in Africa or in Sun Valley skiing.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and send my work home - I can work anywhere in the world.

I am a laptop boy. People say: 'Where's your studio?' I say: 'It's in my laptop, in my rucksack.'

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

I carry my iPad and laptop with me everywhere.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

You can't take my batteries out; I'm always on the go.

We're really lucky because we have a portable studio, which enables us to work wherever we like. There is some extra work involved in setting everything up, but you can find a lot of magic and inspiration in being free to go somewhere completely different.

I'm lucky in the sense that I can write wherever I am - on the bus, in the hotel room, backstage, sitting at home.