J. K. Rowling

Quotes

• “Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invent...”
• “Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped...”
• “I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respe...”
• “On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of...”
• “Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing...”
• “However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the v...”
• “I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable r...”
• “I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typ...”
• “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have liv...”
• “The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that...”
• “Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in t...”
• “I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expec...”
• “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 ha...”
• “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
• “If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
• “You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak”
• “I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
• “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
• “Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
• “I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
• “Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
• “I think you're working and learning until you die.”
• “What's life without a little risk?-Sirius Black”
• “Death is just life's next big adventure.”
• “I received free health care.”