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“I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn’t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.

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“Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I began to write ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book.”

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“It was 1990. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together. After a weekend’s flat-hunting, I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head.”

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“I gave my hero a talent I’d love to have had. Who wouldn’t want to fly?”

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“I feel as though I know what he (Harry Potter) is doing now. He’ll always be a presence in my life, really.”

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“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.”

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“I want to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”

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