I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely honest. I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I'm dying!" Malfoy yelled, as the class panicked. "I'm dying, look at me! It's killed me!

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

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.