Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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.

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.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

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.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

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.

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.

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

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.

'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.