29 Quotes & Sayings By J K Rowling

J. K. Rowling is the author of the record-breaking, multi-award-winning Harry Potter series of seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have sold over 400 million copies worldwide. The books have been turned into eight blockbuster films by Warner Bros., with the most recent instalment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, released in November 2010 Read more

J. K. Rowling also wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2007), a book about the fictional wizard Newt Scamander, whose magical beasts appear in her Harry Potter series.

She has written two companion volumes for charity: Quidditch Through the Ages (2001) and A History of Magic in North America (2004). She has also written two adult novels under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith: The Cuckoo's Calling (2013) and Career of Evil (2014). Her writing career began when she was a teenager growing up in Scotland where she met her future husband, an English teacher who gave her ideas for stories to write.

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What's life without a little risk?- Sirius Black J. K. Rowling
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You’ve got to give the door something?’‘ Yes, ’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak J. K. Rowling
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. J. K. Rowling
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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
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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
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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
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. J. K. Rowling
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential. J. K. Rowling
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. J. K. Rowling
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. J. K. Rowling
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Death is just life's next big adventure. J. K. Rowling
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. J. K. Rowling
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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
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. J. K. Rowling
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I think you're working and learning until you die. J. K. Rowling
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. J. K. Rowling
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. J. K. Rowling
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I received free health care. J. K. Rowling
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. J. K. Rowling
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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? J. K. Rowling