I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.

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.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Hope springs forever.

Warrington’s aim’s so pathetic I’d be more worried if he was aiming for the person next to me.