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" 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. "

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" I think that I've had a very strange life. "

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

" Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. "

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

" I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. "

" If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. "

Measure Of A Man

" However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think you're working and learning until you die. "

" 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. "

" 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 feel 80% of my life is completely normal. "

" I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. "

" There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. "

" 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. "

" It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. "

" I received free health care. "

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

" I'm pro Union. "

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

" The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. "

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