I spent a little time in Germany as a schoolboy learning German and it's a country I knew very well spent a lot of time in. I knew the history very well. I've always wanted to do a piece of work about the post-war period of one sort or another.
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more...
I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
The thing about the 600 words I mean some day you can do a very very very...
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it...
I'm interested in that drive that rush to judgment that is so prevalent in...
I don't read 'chick lit ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a...
I do get recognized but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if...
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I...
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me but I never...
I think you're working and learning until you die.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew but rather to...
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of...
However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and...
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is...
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen Hogwarts will always be...
I received free health care.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and must therefore be...
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies but just as much...
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign even in the wizarding...
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand...
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I still had a...
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous and I...
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a...
It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so...
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money and I...
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for...
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Death obsesses me yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't...
To the well-organized mind death is but the next great adventure.
Death is just life's next big adventure.
No there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice...
The middle class is so funny it's the class I know best and it's the class...
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the...
