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J. K. Rowling Quotes | Quotes said by J. K. Rowling

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #1

    Death is just life's next big adventure.


  • J. K. Rowling Quote #2

    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.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #3

    Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #4

    Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #5

    Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #6

    Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #7

    His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #8

    However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #9

    I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #10

    I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #11

    I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #12

    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.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #13

    I think you're working and learning until you die.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #14

    I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who 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.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #15

    I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #18

    Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #19

    It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #20

    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 Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

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

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #23

    On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #24

    Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #25

    Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #26

    The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #27

    The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #28

    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 Quote #29

    The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

  • J. K. Rowling Quote #30

    We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. 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.

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