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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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" 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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People

Know

" I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. "

" I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. "

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Jane

Writer

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. "

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

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Proud

Very

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't need to publish to make a living. "

" I don't think I am evangelical in my work. "

" 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. "

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

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I Am

Person

" 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. "

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

" I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. "

" 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. "

" I received free health care. "

" I really don't believe in magic. "

" 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. "

" The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. "

" I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. "

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

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

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

" 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. "

J. K. Rowling

Work

Talk

" 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. "

" 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. "

J. K. Rowling

Country

Feel

" 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

" I always felt an outsider. "