Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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

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.

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

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

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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.

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

I'm not a natural joiner.