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" I am the freest author in the world. "

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Measure Of A Man

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

" It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. "

" I felt I had to solve everyone's problems. "

" I think you're working and learning until you die. "

" Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with. "

" There's no formula. "

" I'm an emotional person. "

" I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Death is just life's next big adventure. "

" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "

" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "

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

" 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. "

" When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD. "

" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "

" 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. "

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. "

" I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. "

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

" 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. "