I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I always felt an outsider.

I'm pro Union.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.