“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.”
Science
“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
WorkAll Quotes by 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.”
Fear“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
Dreams“I received free health care.”
Health“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
Home“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“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Failure“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.”
Failure“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
Best“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
Failure“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Good“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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Fear“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
Famous“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
Work“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“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.”
Work“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Best“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“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
Intelligence