J. K. Rowling

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

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.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile.

Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.