Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

You didn’t get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

I've stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I'm still not sure that I've stayed in an English country house.