J. K. Rowling

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

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

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

“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.”

“Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.”

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”

“I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I've laid my friends bare.”

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

“I don't need to publish to make a living.”

“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 was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.”

“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”

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