“I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.”

“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself”

“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”

“She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.”

“It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again”

“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”

“I think writing about the time in Hermione’s life that I write about – growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think it brought back to me how very difficult it is.So much is expected of you as you become a woman, and often you are asked to sacrifice parts of you in becoming a girl, I would say. Hermione doesn’t.”