I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Pity you can't attach an extra arm to your [broom], Malfoy. Then it could catch the Snitch for you.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.