Quotes By J. K. Rowling

I just hate meetings.

I'm pro Union.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.