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

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" 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. "

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

" The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. "

" I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. "

" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "

" I received free health care. "

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

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

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

" There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. "

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

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. "

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

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

" 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. "

" Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. "

" I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. "

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

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

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

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

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