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" You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. "
J. K. Rowling
Lose
Your
You
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" The best of us must sometimes eat our words. "
J. K. Rowling
Sometimes
Eat
Best
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Character
Love
Look
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
City
Live
Me
" It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. "
J. K. Rowling
Forget
Does
Dreams
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Parents
Name
Hard
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Fun
Exhausted
Time
" We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. "
J. K. Rowling
Them
Lot
See
" I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. "
J. K. Rowling
Know
People
Like
" Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself. "
J. K. Rowling
Itself
Thing
Name
" Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. "
J. K. Rowling
Trust
You
Brain
" If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. "
J. K. Rowling
Face
Expected
Angry
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Escape
Some People
Like
" People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. "
J. K. Rowling
People
Know
Me
" I don't need to publish to make a living. "
J. K. Rowling
Living
Need
Publish
" I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud. "
J. K. Rowling
Am
Proud
Very
" I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing? "
J. K. Rowling
Doing
Time
Say
" I received free health care. "
J. K. Rowling
Free
Health Care
Health
" I don't think about who the audience is for my books. "
J. K. Rowling
About
Think
Who
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Day
You
Work
" The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. "
J. K. Rowling
Beautiful
Truth
Must
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Best
Class
Find
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Live
Think
Moral
" I'm an emotional person. "
J. K. Rowling
Person
Emotional
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Good
You
Work
" The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. "
J. K. Rowling
Famous
Wanted
Never
" I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. "
J. K. Rowling
Convinced
Ever
Write
" 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. "
J. K. Rowling
Impress
Teach
Knowledge
" I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me. "
J. K. Rowling
Country
Me
Feel
" I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. "
J. K. Rowling
Carry
Again
Want
" I always felt an outsider. "
J. K. Rowling
Outsider
Always
Felt