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Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.
Joanne Rowling
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I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.
Joanne Rowling
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
Joanne Rowling
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Well, usually when a person shakes their head," said McGonagall coldly, "they mean 'no.' So unless Miss Edgecombe is using a form of sign language as yet unknown to humans.
Joanne Rowling
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I am the freest author in the world.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Joanne Rowling
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Worst that can happen is Hagrid’ll have to get rid of the skrewts. Sorry ... did I say worst? I meant best.
Joanne Rowling
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How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.
Joanne Rowling
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.
Joanne Rowling
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
Joanne Rowling
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
Joanne Rowling
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I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.
Joanne Rowling
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I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
Joanne Rowling
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
Joanne Rowling
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Death is just life's next big adventure.
Joanne Rowling
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You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.
Joanne Rowling
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Joanne Rowling
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Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.
Joanne Rowling
