“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Best
“I think you're working and learning until you die.”
LearningAll Quotes by J. K. Rowling
“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
Experience“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Great“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“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
Dreams“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Failure“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
Best“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
Age“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
Great“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“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
Trust“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
Famous“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
Home“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“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“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“Death is just life's next big adventure.”
Death“I think you're working and learning until you die.”
Learning“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
Intelligence“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