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

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" If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. "

Measure Of A Man

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

" 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. "

" 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 feel 80% of my life is completely normal. "

" If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. "

" Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. "

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

" Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. "

" I'm pro Union. "

" 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. "

" There's no formula. "

" 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. "

" Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. "

" Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "