storytelling Quotes

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.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

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

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it's actually a being. 'Harry Potter''s a good example. So Harry's the hero, right. But he's tainted with evil. There's a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It's well balanced.

I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation.

The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.