“Death is just life's next big adventure.”
Death
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
DeathAll Quotes by J. K. Rowling
“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
Work“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“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“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
Famous“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“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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Great“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“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”
Trust“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
Intelligence“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
Famous“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“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
Experience“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.”
Home“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“I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
Best“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“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