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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" I would always want printed books. "

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

" I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. "

" Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. "

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

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

" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "

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

" Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them. "

" On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. "

" The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. "

" I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. "

" Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. "

" Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. "

" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "

" Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. "