The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes...

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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

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