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

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" 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. "

" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm an emotional person. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. "

" 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. "

" I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. "

" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "

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

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

" 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 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. "