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.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

People have less privacy and are crammed together in cities, but in the wide open spaces they secretly keep tabs on each other a lot more.