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" There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. "
J. K. Rowling
Parent
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" My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. "
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" I'm pro Union. "
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" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. "
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" I'm not a natural joiner. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people. "
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" 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. "
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" The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. "
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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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" Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is. "
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" I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. "
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" To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. "
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Death
" When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance. "
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Kind
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" I received free health care. "
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Health
" It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. "
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" I am the freest author in the world. "
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World
Am
" The best of us must sometimes eat our words. "
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Eat
Best
" In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. "
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Novel
You
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" I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side. "
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" I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. "
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" You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. "
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" 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. "
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People
Money
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. "
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