'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.' J. K. Rowling More Quotes by J. K. Rowling More Quotes From J. K. Rowling But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet. J. K. Rowling lone parent 'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. J. K. Rowling potters self jobs I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. J. K. Rowling thick persons I am the freest author in the world. J. K. Rowling world I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity. J. K. Rowling christianity I don't need to publish to make a living. J. K. Rowling publish needs I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. J. K. Rowling giving book lying I just hate meetings. J. K. Rowling meetings hate I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye. J. K. Rowling public-eye eye I would always want printed books. J. K. Rowling printed-books want book I've laid my friends bare. J. K. Rowling my-friends I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. J. K. Rowling week journal two If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz. J. K. Rowling expected christian faces 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. J. K. Rowling want love-you way In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything. J. K. Rowling urges novel Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun. J. K. Rowling publication potters fun The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy. J. K. Rowling fantasy certain With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. J. K. Rowling regret fun book I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it? J. K. Rowling judgment our-society term It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God. J. K. Rowling wise witty believe