Quotes By J. K. Rowling

I've laid my friends bare.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

I am the freest author in the world.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

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.

I really don't believe in magic.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I would always want printed books.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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

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 imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.