J. K. Rowling

“I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.”

“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.”

“The first story I finished was when I was six years old.”

“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.”

“I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.”

“If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.”

“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding 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.”

“The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.”

“I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.”

“'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.”

“Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.”

“I received free health care.”

“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”

“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”

“I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.”

“Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.”

“There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.”

“But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.”