Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

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

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.

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.