J. K. Rowling

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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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I always felt an outsider.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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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.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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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.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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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.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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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.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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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.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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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.
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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.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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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.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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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.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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I would always want printed books.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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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.
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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
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There's no formula.
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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 to write.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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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?
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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.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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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.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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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 houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I'm not a natural joiner.
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I received free health care.
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