“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Best
“Death is just life's next big adventure.”
DeathAll Quotes by J. K. Rowling
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
Home“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“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“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
Experience“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Fear“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Death“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“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
Age“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Good“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
Work“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
Great“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“I think you're working and learning until you die.”
Learning“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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
Dreams“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“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 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