J. K. Rowling Quotes

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.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I’m pro Union.

I’m not a natural joiner.

I always felt an outsider.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

I don’t need to publish to make a living.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.

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.