J. K. Rowling
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?
I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
I'm pro Union.
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.
I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.Collection: Inspiring
We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.Collection: Love
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.Collection: Inspirational
Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.Collection: Fun
In dreams, we enter a world that’s entirely our own.Collection: Dream
The world is full of wonderful things you haven't seen yet. Don't ever give up on the chance of seeing them.Collection: Giving Up
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.Collection: Choices
It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.Collection: Life
What’s comin’ will come, an’ we’ll meet it when it does.Collection: Doe
Don't let the muggles get you down.Collection: Muggles
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.Collection: Lying
Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I've met people who don't want to try for fear of failing.Collection: Failure
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.Collection: Inspirational
I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the secondCollection: Believe
The ones that love us never really leave us.Collection: Memorial
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.Collection: Self
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.Collection: Inspirational
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happyCollection: Happiness
Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.Collection: Trying
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.Collection: Book
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.Collection: Mean
Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical!Collection: Together
A Wrackspurt . . . They’re invisible. They float in through your ears and make your brain go fuzzy,” she said. “I thought I felt one zooming around in here.Collection: Brain
He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!Collection: Class
It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.Collection: Dream
Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!Collection: New Year
Oh, HONESTLY, don't you two read?Collection: Two
He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.Collection: Wall
Merlin’s beard, what is Xenophilius Lovegood wearing? He looks like an omelet.Collection: Looks
If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.Collection: Trying
Like the fact that the person Sirius cared for the most about in the world was you," said Dumbledore quietly.Collection: World
Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.Collection: Dream