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" 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. "

J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling

Work

Talk

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

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

" 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. "

J. K. Rowling

Cafe

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" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "

J. K. Rowling

Dislike

Indifference

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

J. K. Rowling

I Am

Person

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

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

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

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

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

J. K. Rowling

Jane

Writer

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'm an emotional person. "

J. K. Rowling

Person

Emotional

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

" I am the freest author in the world. "

J. K. Rowling

I Am

World

" 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. "

" I always felt an outsider. "

" In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. "

J. K. Rowling

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

" Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain. "

" Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. "

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

" 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? "