J. K. Rowling

“Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.”

“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”

“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation o...”

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”

“However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would nev...”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory...”

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.”

“Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.”

“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”

“I am the freest author in the world.”

“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need...”

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

“I've laid my friends bare.”

“Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.”

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and b...”

“In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.”

“With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday ho...”