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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.


J. K. Rowling

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GAIL COLLINS I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
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RUTH B I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY I write my music.
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GARRISON KEILLOR Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
DODIE SMITH As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
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SHAWN MENDES I've never done anything but what I wanted to do with my life. I don't think too many people...
DON MCLEAN I write to find strength.
I write to become the person that hides inside me.
I write to li...
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COLMAN DOMINGO I write exactly what I think. If it's a raw subject, I write lots of things and then pull out al...
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GEORGE GERSHWIN Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly hav...
FRANK MCCOURT Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it...
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JAMES ROLLINS I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON I write with as much objectivity as I can.
ERNEST GAINES I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
BROWNIE MCGHEE I cannot always write at the same time, in the same place. I work, travel and have a vigorous family...
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PETRA NEMCOVA I have never sought the reason why I write.
NATHALIE SARRAUTE Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af...
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CAROL BURNETT I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
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CASS MCCOMBS I don't have any outside view of myself, and if I did, I would probably be creatively inhibited....
RACHEL KUSHNER I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
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K All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
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J.K. ROWLING And this is Nymphadora-"
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J.K. ROWLING And don't forget: Elvendork! It's unisex! - James Potter
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A bearlike black dog had appeared...
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J.K. ROWLING Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?
J.K. ROWLING You are — truly your father’s son, Harry. . . .
J.K. ROWLING But some part of him realized, even as he fought to break free from Lupin, that Sirius had never kep...
J.K. ROWLING He's not a child!" said Sirius impatiently.

"He's not an adult either!" said Mrs. Weasley...
J.K. ROWLING You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?
J.K. ROWLING You don’t understand — there are things worth dying for!
J.K. ROWLING He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
J.K. ROWLING Remus Lupin: I am not being ridiculous. Tonks deserves somebody young and whole.
Mr. Weasley: B...
J.K. ROWLING What you fear most of all is-fear.
J.K. ROWLING I was hoping that Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” he said, “and ...
J.K. ROWLING Not at all up to your usual standard, Hermione. Only one out of three, I’m afraid. I have not been...
J.K. ROWLING Loony, Loopy Lupin.
J.K. ROWLING Harry -- yer a wizard.
J.K. ROWLING Sometimes you remind me a lot of James. He called it my 'furry little problem' in company. Many peop...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron.
"Not today, Mr. Weasley."
Snape looked as...
J.K. ROWLING First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
J.K. ROWLING Well, that won’t matter if they turn out to cure seasickness or something, will it?” said Ron, g...
J.K. ROWLING thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing . . . maybe you’ve got to attack him while he’s i...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we’re trying to keep them alive,” said Malfoy sarcastically. “Wh...
J.K. ROWLING Now, Ron, the Sorting’s much more important than food,” said Nearly Headless Nick as “Madley, ...
J.K. ROWLING Bagman swore loudly. ‘Damn them!’ he said, looking quite distracted,
J.K. ROWLING Malfoy got Hermione!” Ron said. “Look!” He forced Hermione to show Snape her teeth — she was...
J.K. ROWLING I might be seeing you all sooner than you think,” said Charlie, grinning, as he hugged Ginny good-...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah, well, yeh get weirdos in every breed. I’m not sayin’ there isn’t the odd elf who’d tak...
J.K. ROWLING Right little ray of sunshine, aren’t you?” said Ron. “You and Professor Trelawney should get t...
J.K. ROWLING He wrenched the hangings shut around his four-poster, leaving Harry standing there by the door, star...
J.K. ROWLING Ron’s voice now joined the others’. “What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?” “O...
J.K. ROWLING sporadic howls from the ghoul who lived in the attic.
J.K. ROWLING Bill and Charlie both had their wands out, and were making two battered old tables fly high above th...
J.K. ROWLING Sirius shook his head and said, “She’s got the measure of Crouch better than you have, Ron. If y...
J.K. ROWLING The box filled gradually around them over the next half hour. Mr. Weasley kept shaking hands with pe...
J.K. ROWLING What?” Ron bellowed furiously. “Four? You lousy, biased scumbag, you gave Krum ten!” But Harry...
J.K. ROWLING Don’t you?” said Moody quietly. “It’s very simple, Karkaroff. Someone put Potter’s name in...
J.K. ROWLING He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville’s snores, ...
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