Quotes By J. K. Rowling

I just hate meetings.

I'm pro Union.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

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.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

There's no formula.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

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.

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

I always felt an outsider.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

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

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

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.

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

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

I don't need to publish to make a living.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.