Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

My readers have to work with me to create the experience. They have to bring their imaginations to the story. No one sees a book in the same way, no one sees the characters the same way. As a reader you imagine them in your own mind. So, together, as author and reader, we have both created the story.

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others.

We’re all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?