Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

I'm not a natural joiner.

Ginny, listen... I can’t be involved with you anymore. We’ve got to stop seeing each other. We can’t be together.” “It’s for some stupid, noble reason, isn’t it?

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.