English - Author | July 31, 1965 -
Death is just life's next big adventure.
J. K. Rowling
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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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 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.
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
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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.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
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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.
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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.
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