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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

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I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

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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...more

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Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic...

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

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We could have all been killed -or worse, expelled.

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Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

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I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

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Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.

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I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ...more

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What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for t...more

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He wanted to be stopped, to be dragged back, to be sent back home... But he was home. Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldem...more

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One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving m...more

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Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.