J. K. Rowling

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

J. K. Rowling

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

J. K. Rowling

I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

J. K. Rowling

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.

J. K. Rowling

I think it’s alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one’s values.

J. K. Rowling

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

J. K. Rowling

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

J. K. Rowling

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

J. K. Rowling

I’m an emotional person.

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.

J. K. Rowling