What's life without a little risk?- Sirius BlackJ. K. Rowling
You’ve got to give the door something?’‘ Yes, ’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistakJ. 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
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
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
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
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
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.J. K. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.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
Death is just life's next big adventure.J. K. Rowling
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.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
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.J. K. Rowling
I think you're working and learning until you die.J. K. Rowling
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.J. K. Rowling
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
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
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
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
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
I received free health care.J. K. Rowling
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.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
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
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
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
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