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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.

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

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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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

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

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

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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

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

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

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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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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

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

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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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

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

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

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I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

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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?

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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

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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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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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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.

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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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

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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

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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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I think you're working and learning until you die.

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I received free health care.

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