J. K. Rowling Quotes And Sayings

You Sort Of Start Thinking Anything's Possible If You've Got Enough Nerve.

I Don't Think About Who The Audience Is For My Books.

I Love Inventing Names, But I Also Collect Unusual Names, So That I Can Look Through My Notebook And Choose One That Suits A New Character.

I'm An Emotional Person.

Death Is Just Life's Next Big Adventure.

There's No Formula.

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.

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.

I Imagined Being A Famous Writer Would Be Like Being Like Jane Austen.

I Am The Freest Author In The World.

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.

I'm A Writer, And I Will Write What I Want To Write.

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.

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.

I'm Interested In That Drive, That Rush To Judgment, That Is So Prevalent In Our Society. We All Know That Pleasurable Rush That Comes From Condemning, And In The Short Term It's Quite A Satisfying Thing To Do, Isn't It?

I've Laid My Friends Bare.

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.

I've Been Writing My Entire Life, And I'll Always Write.

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.

We're A Phenomenally Snobby Society, And It's Such A Rich Seam. 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.

I Think The Next Thing I Publish Will Be For Children, But I Don't Really Want To Be Held To That Because I Also Know What My Next Book For Adults Will Be, And I Really Like That, Too, So It Depends. I've Always Had More Than One Thing Going.

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.

There Was A Point Where I Really Felt I Had 'Penniless Divorcee Lone Parent' Tattooed On My Head.

I Received Free Health Care.

Hearing Voices No One Else Can Hear Isn't A Good Sign, Even In The Wizarding World.

Of All The Subjects On This Planet, I Think My Parents Would Have Been Hard Put To Name One Less Useful Than Greek Mythology To Securing The Keys To An Executive Bathroom.

Never Be Ashamed! There's Some Who'll Hold It Against You, But They're Not Worth Bothering With.

I Just Hate Meetings. Though It's True That Once You've Made A Lot Of Money, People Around You Might Be Full Of Ideas About Ways To Make Lots More Money And Might Be Disappointed That You Don't Want To Seize Every Opportunity To Do So.

To The Well-organized Mind, Death Is But The Next Great Adventure.

I Love A Good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I'm Opposed To Fundamentalism In Any Form.

But I Was The Most Unashamed Lone Parent You Were Ever Going To Meet.

Writing And Cafes Are Strongly Linked In My Brain.

The Moment You Are Old Enough To Take The Wheel, Responsibility Lies With You.

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.

I'm Not A Natural Joiner.

The Thing About Fantasy - There Are Certain Things You Just Don't Do In Fantasy.

I Don't Need To Publish To Make A Living.

When I Was In My Teens I Had Issues With Ocd.

I've Been Asked This Question So Many Times, Do You Feel You Need To Write A Book For Adults? No, I Don't Need To Write A Book For Adults.

I Loved Writing For Kids, I Loved Talking To Children About What I'd Written, I Don't Want To Leave That Behind.

I Am Not A Particularly Thick-skinned Person.

I Knew No One Who'd Ever Been In The Public Eye.

I Pay A Lot Of Tax, And I Feel, One Of The Reasons I Stay And Pay Why I'm Not Based In Monaco... I Think My Country Helped Me.

I Would Always Want Printed Books.

There Appears To Be Something To Do With Vehicles And Movement That Stimulates My Writing.

Talent And Intelligence Never Yet Inoculated Anyone Against The Caprice Of The Fates.

I Think That I've Had A Very Strange Life.

I'm Not Anti-middle-class In The Slightest. Look At Me! I Am Very Pro People Putting Time And Money And Effort Into Trying To Improve The World.

I Think You Could Ask 10 English People The Same Question About Class And Get A Very Different Answer.