Well — I was lucky once, wasn't I?” said Harry, pointing at his scar. “I might get lucky again.

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them.

I will not calm down!

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.