Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
We touch other people's lives simply by existing.
Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.
For some to love you, some must loathe you.
I think you're working and learning until you die.
If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.
I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.
I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
I'm not a natural joiner.
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.
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.
If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
