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" I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. "

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" 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. "

" I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? "

" I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. "

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

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

" I'm pro Union. "

" It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "

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

" Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. "

" I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. "

" Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. "

" The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers. "

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

" In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. "

" I am the freest author in the world. "

" The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. "

" 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. "

" I received free health care. "

" 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. "

" If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. "

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

" I don't think about who the audience is for my books. "

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

" I would always want printed books. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "