J. K. Rowling, Quotes

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

There's nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think 'YES'!

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

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.

Time is making fools of us again.

I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

The stories we love best do live in us forever.

Howard and Shirley were clothed, always, in an invisible layer of decorum that they never laid aside.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Harry found the [tea]... seemed to burn away a little of the fear fluttering in his chest.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

This is night, Diddykins. That's what we call it when it goes all dark like this.

If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love.

Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.

Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.

For in dreams we enter a world that is entirely our own. Let them swim in the deepest ocean or glide over the highest cloud.

It's our choices, more than anything, that show who we really are.

They see Hermione as someone who is not vulnerable, but I see her as someone who does have quite a lot of vulnerability in her personality.

Death comes for us all in the end.

I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.

Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.

Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

Hope springs forever.

Courtesy dictates that we offer fellow wizards the opportunity of denying us entry.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

Gringotts was the safest place in the world for something you wanted to hide — except perhaps Hogwarts.

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?

He's a werewolf! That's why he's been missing classes!

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.

Oh, there you are, Albus,' he said. 'You've been a very long time. Upset stomach?' 'No, I was merely reading the Muggle magazines,' said Dumbledore. 'I do love knitting patterns.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.