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

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" 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. "

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

" What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does. "

" 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 would always want printed books. "

" Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. "

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "

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

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

" To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "

" I've laid my friends bare. "