Quotes By J. K. Rowling

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

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 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 half an hour to kill.

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

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.

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.

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.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

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.

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

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.

I would always want printed books.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

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