"Given that you're one of the biggest reasons many women on the Left no longer trust Labour to defend their rights, do…"

"I've looked around and realised that it has to be someone who can take the hit. And it has to be me. I can afford it."

"Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. [...] It is that absence of being able to envisage t…"

"The wizards represent all that the true "muggle" most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so.…"

"Hermione was very easy to create because she is based almost entirely on myself at the age of 11. She is really a car…"

"I absolutely did not start writing these books to encourage any child into witchcraft. [...] I'm laughing slightly be…"

"I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, "Ms. Rowling, I'm so …"

"[On her first marriage] I married on October 16, 1992. I left on November 17, 1993. So that was the duration of what …"

"During the day I was writing in cafés as everyone famously knows, but could I just say for the record once and for al…"

"I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting do…"