J. K. Rowling

“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 wri...”

“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 s...”

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

“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 p...”

“The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.”

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

“My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.”

“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.”

“If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.”

“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.”

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”

“The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.”

“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.”

“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”

“I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.”

“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.”

“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 wha...”

“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to prid...”