J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.