J. K. Rowling, Quotes

THIRTY–ZERO! TAKE THAT, YOU DIRTY, CHEATING —” “Jordan, if you can’t commentate in an unbiased way — !” “I’m telling it like it is, Professor!

Merlin's pants!" shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. "Merlin's pants?" repeated Ron, looking amused. "She must be really upset.

Hermione: You! You foul, loathsome, evil little cocroach! Ron: Hermione, no! He's no worth it.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.

Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?

Well, I'm sure you'll find someone somewhere who'll have you.

Perfection is not necessary to make a real and lasting difference to other people's lives.

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

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.'

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.

We touch other people's lives simply by existing.

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.

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I'm not a natural joiner.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

Everything that fails brings you closer to what works.

If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet

Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale.

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

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 was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

Power was my weakness and my temptation. And Miguel Sano is very tempting. But he is not weak. He is very, very strong.

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

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?

It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.

I have some problems with conventional organized religion.

I've got plenty of money, more money than I ever dreamed I would have. But I am not a billionaire.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

What will come, will come; you just have to be there to meet it.