Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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.

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?

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

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.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

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 the way that I throw myself into prose.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I received free health care.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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

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.