...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.

I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.

The process of giving is without limits.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.