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All Quotes by author - J. K. Rowling
" 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. "
Me
Cafe
Off
" Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "
You
Enough
Got
" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "
Thing
Detest
Most
" But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. "
Ever
Going
You
" Death is just life's next big adventure. "
Life
Big
Adventure
" 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. "
Think
Yes
Why
" 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. "
Way
Myself
Poetry
" Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. "
Away
Failure
Stripping
" Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. "
Itself
Thing
Name
" Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. "
World
Even
Hear
" 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. "
Impress
Teach
Knowledge
" Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. "
People
Whatever
Think
" 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 never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. "
Pay
Parents
View
" Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. "
Humans
Them
Choosing
" I always felt an outsider. "
Outsider
Always
Felt
" I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. "
Things
Write
Always
" I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. "
Am
I Am
Person
" I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. "
Am
Proud
Very
" I am the freest author in the world. "
I Am
World
Am
" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "
Anyone
Christianity
Out
" 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. "
City
Live
Me
" I don't need to publish to make a living. "
Living
Need
Publish
" 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. "
Fantasy
Book
Chance
" I don't think about who the audience is for my books. "
About
Think
Who
" I don't think I am evangelical in my work. "
Work
Evangelical
I Am
" I feel 80% of my life is completely normal. "
Feel
I Feel
Normal
" I felt I had to solve everyone's problems. "
Everyone
Had
Problems
" If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. "
Face
Expected
Angry
" 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. "
Good
You
Work
" If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. "
Long
Afraid
Long Time
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