En Ma Fin Est Ma Commencement - In my end is my beginning.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

I'm utterly indifferent to Kate Middleton's baby.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?

Being a stepmother has worked out very well for me. I love my stepchildren very much.