J. K. Rowling

“I really don't believe in magic.”

“I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.”

“I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.”

“Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

“You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”

“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...”

“In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.”

“Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.”

“Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.”

“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.”

“I always felt an outsider.”

“I would always want printed books.”

“I'm pro Union.”

“I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.”

“I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.”

“I don't need to publish to make a living.”

“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

“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.”