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" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "
J. K. Rowling
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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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" To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" I really don't believe in magic. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm pro Union. "
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" Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you. "
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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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" There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other. "
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" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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Think
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" There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. "
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Something
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" The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. "
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Truth
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" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "
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" I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. "
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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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" I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. "
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" I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. "
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" 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. "
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" Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most. "
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" Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. "
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