Quotes By J. K. Rowling

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I just hate meetings.

I'm pro Union.

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

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's what makes the middle classes so funny.

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.

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.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?