J. K. Rowling quotes
Born
31 July 1965, Yate, Gloucestershire, England.
Occupation
Author.
J. K. Rowling is a British author, best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
– J. K. Rowling
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
– J. K. Rowling
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.
– J. K. Rowling
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
– J. K. Rowling
Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
– J. K. Rowling
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.
– J. K. Rowling
I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.
– J. K. Rowling
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
– J. K. Rowling
What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
– J. K. Rowling
The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.
– J. K. Rowling
But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
– J. K. Rowling
I’m pro Union.
– J. K. Rowling
I always felt an outsider.
– J. K. Rowling
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
– J. K. Rowling
The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
– J. K. Rowling
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
– J. K. Rowling
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.
– J. K. Rowling
I think that I’ve had a very strange life.
– J. K. Rowling
I really don’t believe in magic.
– J. K. Rowling
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
– J. K. Rowling
Death is just life’s next big adventure.
– J. K. Rowling
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
– J. K. Rowling
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
– J. K. Rowling
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
– J. K. Rowling
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.
– J. K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
– J. K. Rowling
There’s no formula.
– J. K. Rowling
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
– J. K. Rowling
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.
– J. K. Rowling
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
– J. K. Rowling
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
– J. K. Rowling
If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
– J. K. Rowling
The thing about fantasy – there are certain things you just don’t do in fantasy.
– J. K. Rowling
It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
– J. K. Rowling
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
– J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
– J. K. Rowling
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
– J. K. Rowling
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
– J. K. Rowling
I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
– J. K. Rowling
You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
– J. K. Rowling
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
– J. K. Rowling
‘Harry Potter’ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
– J. K. Rowling
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
– J. K. Rowling
Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
– J. K. Rowling
I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.
– J. K. Rowling
When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
– J. K. Rowling
Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
– J. K. Rowling