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

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

" When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD. "

" I'm not a natural joiner. "

" I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it. "

" 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. "

" We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. 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. "

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

" It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. "

" There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. "

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

" I've laid my friends bare. "

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

" I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world. "

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

" His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. "