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" I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. "
J. K. Rowling
Things
Write
Always
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" I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form. "
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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 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 like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. "
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" I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. "
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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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" 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. "
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" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "
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Friends
" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "
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Most
" I've laid my friends bare. "
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" Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "
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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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You
Work
" Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. "
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Never
Innovation
Imagination
" I would always want printed books. "
J. K. Rowling
Printed
Books
Always
" If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. "
J. K. Rowling
Measure Of A Man
Equality
He
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Way
Myself
Poetry
" Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. "
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Home
Page
Welcome
" Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. "
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Thing
Name
" I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. "
J. K. Rowling
Free
Life
My Life
" I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. "
J. K. Rowling
People
You
Question
" I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. "
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Am
Proud
Very
" It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "
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Show
Our
" 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. "
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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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" I don't need to publish to make a living. "
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" The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. "
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" I think you're working and learning until you die. "
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" You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. "
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" I'm an emotional person. "
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