“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
Great
“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
TrustAll Quotes by 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.”
Best“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
Trust“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“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“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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Great“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“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Failure“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.”
Dreams“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.”
Imagination“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
Best“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Death“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
Famous“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“I received free health care.”
Health“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“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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Fear