It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I love being a writer. I am very lucky my life's ambition turned out to be just as much fun as I thought it would be.

Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles.