I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. - J.K. Rowling
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J.K. Rowling
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. - J.K. Rowling
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going. - J.K. Rowling
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. - J.K. Rowling
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write. - J.K. Rowling
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults. - J.K. Rowling
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. - J.K. Rowling
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. - J.K. Rowling
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. - J.K. Rowling
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. - J.K. Rowling
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer. - J.K. Rowling
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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