J. K. Rowling

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.”

“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.”

“I'm pro Union.”

“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.”

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.”

“I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.”

“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”

“'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.”

“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”

“The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

“There's no formula.”

“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”