I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?