“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
J K Rowling

“Harry and Hermione are platonic friends, but I won't answer for anyone else, nudge, nudge, wink, wink. ”
-- On relationships in the Harry Potter series

“I'm laughing...that would be a bit Star Wars, wouldn't it? ”
-- To a question on whether Lord Voldemort was Harry's relative

“I would never pick up one of my own books to read in the bath”
-- J K Rowling about not re-reading her books after they have been printed

“I am as sure as I can be currently that [book] 7 will be the final novel, even though I get a lot of really big puppy dog eyes. ”
-- On the possibility of a Book 8

“Harry-Snape [relationship]... is going to launch 10,000 theories and I'm going to get a big kick out of reading them. I'm evil, but I just like the theories. ”
-- About why she won't comment on the twist in the tale

“I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. I had never told her about Harry Potter. ”
-- On her greatest regret

“My mother would have loved for me to have phoned to say I was getting the OBE but you mustn't tell the neighbours. ”
-- After meeting the Queen

“I've got a mental amount that I can't spend beyond. I still have a limit to what I think I would be justified in spending on frivolity. ”
-- About her approach to her immense wealth

“I was isolated before I got famous, and having fame on top of an already isolating situation didn't help. It was as though I'd lived under a rock for a long time and suddenly someone had lifted it off and was shining a torch onto me. ”
-- About the pressures of fame

“My power of concentration is battle-hardened. It's just the way I've always had to write. ”
-- About writing in cafes. (She still does it, despite having a lovely study.)

“I was trying to subvert the genre. Harry goes off into this magical world, and is it any better than the world he's left? ”
-- On her refusal to buy into the basic clichés of fantasy

“Part of me will be glad when it's [the Harry Potter series] over. Family life will become more normal. [But] I'll be so sad to think I'll never write a Harry-Ron-Hermione sentence again. ”
--On ending the series and writing other books