
The Poor Are Discussed As This Homogeneous Mash, Like Porridge. The Idea That They Might Be Individuals, And Be Where They Are For Very Different, Diverse Reasons, Again Seems To Escape Some People.
I Don't Think I Am Evangelical In My Work.
I Remember The First Time I Heard A Teenager Say 'Lol.' Just What? But It Means 'Laugh.' Why Don't You Just Laugh? What Are You Doing?
Some Of The Furor That Surrounded A Harry Potter Publication Was Fun.
Honestly, I Think We Should Be Delighted People Still Want To Read, Be It On A Kindle Or A Nook Or Whatever The Latest Device Is.
What's Coming Will Come And We'll Just Have To Meet It When It Does.
You Lose Your Individuality A Huge Amount When You Have No Money, And I Certainly Had That Experience.
I Don't Think About Who The Audience Is For My Books.
I'm An Emotional Person.
I Love Inventing Names, But I Also Collect Unusual Names, So That I Can Look Through My Notebook And Choose One That Suits A New Character.
Death Is Just Life's Next Big Adventure.
His Priority Did Not Seem To Be To Teach Them What He Knew, But Rather To Impress Upon Them That Nothing, Not Even... Knowledge, Was Foolproof.
There's No Formula.
The Thing About The 600 Words, I Mean Some Day, You Can Do A Very, Very, Very Hard Day's Work And Not Write A Word, Just Revising, Or You Would Scribble A Few Words.
I Imagined Being A Famous Writer Would Be Like Being Like Jane Austen.
I Just Write What I Wanted To Write. I Write What Amuses Me. It's Totally For Myself. I Never In My Wildest Dreams Expected This Popularity.
I Am The Freest Author In The World.
Whether You Come Back By Page Or By The Big Screen, Hogwarts Will Always Be There To Welcome You Home.
I'm A Writer, And I Will Write What I Want To Write.
I've Laid My Friends Bare.
I'm Interested In That Drive, That Rush To Judgment, That Is So Prevalent In Our Society. We All Know That Pleasurable Rush That Comes From Condemning, And In The Short Term It's Quite A Satisfying Thing To Do, Isn't It?
I Do Get Recognized, But I Must Say Edinburgh Is A Fantastic City To Live If You're Well-known. There Is An Innate Respect For Privacy In Edinburgh People, And I Also Think They're Used To Seeing Me Walking Around, So I Don't Think I'm A Very Big Deal.
I've Been Writing My Entire Life, And I'll Always Write.
The Moment I Said I'd Finished A Book, I Knew What Would Happen. There Would Be A Bidding War, And I Would End Up With Someone Who'd Got The Fattest Wallet, Who Had Bought It Because I'd Written Harry Potter. That Would Have Been Why.
We're A Phenomenally Snobby Society, And It's Such A Rich Seam. The Middle Class Is So Funny: It's The Class I Know Best, And It's The Class Where You Find The Most Pretension, So That's What Makes The Middle Classes So Funny.
People Ask Me If There Are Going To Be Stories Of Harry Potter As An Adult. Frankly, If I Wanted To, I Could Keep Writing Stories Until Harry Is A Senior Citizen, But I Don't Know How Many People Would Actually Want To Read About A 65 Year Old Harry Still At Hogwarts Playing Bingo With Ron And Hermione.
I Think The Next Thing I Publish Will Be For Children, But I Don't Really Want To Be Held To That Because I Also Know What My Next Book For Adults Will Be, And I Really Like That, Too, So It Depends. I've Always Had More Than One Thing Going.
The Middle Class Is So Funny, It's The Class I Know Best, And It's The Class Where You Find The Most Pretension, So That's What Makes The Middle Classes So Funny.
There Was A Point Where I Really Felt I Had 'Penniless Divorcee Lone Parent' Tattooed On My Head.
I Received Free Health Care.
Hearing Voices No One Else Can Hear Isn't A Good Sign, Even In The Wizarding World.
Never Be Ashamed! There's Some Who'll Hold It Against You, But They're Not Worth Bothering With.
To The Well-organized Mind, Death Is But The Next Great Adventure.
I Just Hate Meetings. Though It's True That Once You've Made A Lot Of Money, People Around You Might Be Full Of Ideas About Ways To Make Lots More Money And Might Be Disappointed That You Don't Want To Seize Every Opportunity To Do So.
I'm Opposed To Fundamentalism In Any Form.
I Love A Good Dorothy L. Sayers.
But I Was The Most Unashamed Lone Parent You Were Ever Going To Meet.
Writing And Cafes Are Strongly Linked In My Brain.