Amazon.com: Did you want to become in former times authoress?
Yes, I wanted to become authoress, as far as I can remember. My favourite subject was English, white the sky why I a French conclusion always aimed at...

Amazon.com: Were you how old, as them with write began and how were called your first book?
I have my first history written as I approximate 6 was. It concerned a hare named hare. Very imaginatively. Since then I wrote.

Amazon.com: Why did you want to become authoress?
If someone would ask me for the prescription for luck, step would be 1 to find out what one does dearest, and step 2 someone to find the one for it pays. I estimate myself lucky to be able to live actually on the letter.

Amazon.com: Do you have any plans to write adult books?
My first two stories - which I tried to never publish - were adult books. I could introduce myself to write a further but I never imagine during the writing an exact target audience. The idea comes first, therefore everything of the idea really depends, which I have.

Amazon.com: Which books read you to gladly?
My favourite authoress is Jane Auston and I has her books so often read that I that to count gave up. My dearest still living author is Roddy Doyle, I regards it as a genius. I think the two make simply all -- fully formed out characters create, (...), human behaviors in an unsurpassed kind describe -- and am naturally, very funny.

Amazon.com: Which books read you as a child gladly? Had this any influence on your own write style?
It is to be called always heavily its own influences. Everything which you saw, experienced, read or heard, put down in your head, like compost, and then your own ideas from this compost grow. Three books which I as a child read, are still clearly in my memory available. One are "The Little White Horse" from Elizabeth Goudge that was probably in former times also my favourite book. Second is "Manxmouse" from Paul Gallico, who not Gallicos is most well-known book, but I find it nevertheless marvelous. Third is "Grimble", from Clement Freud. "Grimble" is one of of the merriest books which I ever read, and Grimble, which is a small boy, is a marvelous character. I would see loving gladly a "Grimble" film. As far as I know, aren't the two latter books any longer printed, if this book-lay thus the coworkers of any sees, could you her please still times in pressure give, so that they can still read also different people?

Amazon.com: How long do you need, in order to write a book?
My last book - third of the Harry series - has to become used over finished one year, which for me actually is rather fast (...)

Amazon.com: Where did the ideas for the Harry of Potter books come?
I do not have notion where the ideas came and I hope it to also never find out, it for me the joy would spoil if would turn out that I a merry small fold on the surface of my brain have, which lets me think of invisible station tracks.

Amazon.com: Are your characters based on genuine persons?
Some do it, but I must be very careful, which I over it legend. Usually real people affect a book character, but if they are only in your head transform them itself into somewhat completely different one. Professor Snape and Gilderoy LOCK-hard originally came from persons who I know, became then however somewhat completely different one than her only on the paper were. Hermine is a little as I in the age of 11 years, only a little more intelligent.

Amazon.com: Are any from stories from their life or from people, which them?
I let none of stories from the Harry books be based consciously on my life, but that meant that not with do not influence your own feelings there naturally. As I that 12. Chapter of volume one, "the mirror Nerhegeb" read, again, noticed to me that I gave Harry many of my feelings over the death of my own nut/mother, without it was noticeable to me during the writing.

Amazon.com: Where did the idea of the Quidditchs come?
I invented Quidditch as I the Nachtin a small room of the Bournville hotel in Didsbury, Manchester, spent. I wanted to always see a Zauberersport and I wanted a kind of sport, with which more than only one ball is simultaneous in the play. The idea amused me simply. The Muggelsportart that it at most resembles is probably basketball, which is probably the kind of sport, which dearest I see. I had much fun when rule inventing and I have still the note booklet into which I everything wrote in, completely with diagrams and I had tried all name out of the 3 balls which, before I decided for Schnatz, Klat and Quaffel.

Amazon.com: From where do the ideas come for the charm subjects of instruction and spells?
I had decided already very early for the school fan. Most sayings are invented, but some of them have a basis in what effective humans considered in former times once. We owe a quantity of our scientific knowledge to the Alchemisten!

Amazon.com: Which components need the Harry of Potter books of your opinion after?
I never really think about the components, but if I unite call should were that humor, strong characters and a waterproof action stand. These things would join themselves to a kind book, which I read gladly. Oh, I have the Gruselfaktor forgotten - now, I never plan to shift the people in frights but it seems to in-creep on the way.

Amazon.com: Do they write with the hand or at the computer?
I write still gladly with the hand. Normally I make a first draft with filler and paper, and then I make next version at the computer for you. (...) But I learned to write on all possible kinds from papers to. The names of the Hogwarts houses developed on a airplane Kotztuete,  it was empty.

Amazon.com: Thanks for the interview.