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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom. "

" I'm not a natural joiner. "

" I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The best of us must sometimes eat our words. "

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

" I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" There's no formula. "

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

" 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 think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. "

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

" I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing? "

" 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. "