“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.”
Poetry
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
HomeAll Quotes by J. K. Rowling
“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.”
Death“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
Trust“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.”
Work“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.”
Imagination“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
Great“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
Home“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.”
Best“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.”
Knowledge“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Good“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.”
Business“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
Famous“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Death“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
Famous“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Fear“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
Age“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Great“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Failure“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.”
Respect“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.”
Fear