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

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

" 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. "

" The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. "

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

" Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world. "

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

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The first story I finished was when I was six years old. "

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

" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "

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

" I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. "

" I would always want printed books. "

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

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

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