Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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

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.

I just hate meetings.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

I always felt an outsider.

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

Death is just life's next big adventure.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.