J. K. Rowling
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.Collection: Mean
Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.Collection: Self
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.Collection: Trying
I had an old typewriter and a big idea.Collection: Greatest Fear
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'Collection: Children
Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.Collection: Rocks
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.Collection: Real
We touch other people's lives simply by existing.Collection: People
Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.Collection: Jobs
For some to love you, some must loathe you.Collection: Love You
If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.Collection: Would Be
Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?Collection: Bullying
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.Collection: Real
I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?Collection: Mean
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!Collection: Blood
Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.Collection: Hero
Harry, despite your privileged insight into Voldemort’s world (which, incidentally, is a gift any Death Eater would kill to have), you have never been seduced by the Dark Arts, never, even for a second, shown the slightest desire to become one of Voldemort’s followers!” “Of course I haven’t!” said Harry indignantly. “He killed my mum and dad!” “You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!” said Dumbledore loudly.Collection: Art
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.Collection: Integrity
What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.Collection: School
I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.Collection: Speech
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.Collection: Wise
On the other hand, the Prince had proved a much more effective teacher than Snape so far.Collection: Teacher
I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.Collection: Teacher
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!Collection: Music
In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.Collection: House
The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don’t work.Collection: People
Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.Collection: Powerful
"Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."Collection: Hunting
That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.Collection: Girl
It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will.Collection: Baby
Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.Collection: Tea
Be ruthless about protecting writing days.Collection: Writing
Albus Severus," Harry said quietly, so that nobody but Ginny could hear, and she was tactful enough to pretend to be waving to Rose, who was now on the train, "you were named for two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew.Collection: Life
Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.Collection: Humor
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.Collection: Mean
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.Collection: Children
words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.Collection: Magic
I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.Collection: Children
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 to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom 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.Collection: Daughter
I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.Collection: Thinking
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.Collection: Exercise
I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.Collection: Book
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.Collection: Eye
I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.Collection: Mad
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.Collection: Imagination
Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously, that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case you have failed by default. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never obtained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things that I could not have learned any other way. I discovered I had a strong will and more discipline than I had suspected.Collection: Strong
Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.Collection: Strong
What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!Collection: Writing
The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?Collection: Men