J. K. Rowling Quotes And Sayings

In A Novel You Have To Resist The Urge To Tell Everything.

I Felt I Had To Solve Everyone's Problems.

I Was Convinced That The Only Thing I Wanted To Do Ever - Was Write Novels.

I'm Pro Union.

Failure Means A Stripping Away Of The Inessential.

I Am Proud Of Having Done What I've Done. Very Proud.

Bigotry Is Probably The Thing I Detest Most.

I Would Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Did The Best She Could With The Talent She Had.

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.

And The Idea Of Just Wandering Off To A Cafe With A Notebook And Writing And Seeing Where That Takes Me For Awhile Is Just Bliss.

It Takes A Great Deal Of Bravery To Stand Up To Our Enemies, But Just As Much To Stand Up To Our Friends.

The Fame Thing Is Interesting Because I Never Wanted To Be Famous, And I Never Dreamt I Would Be Famous.

It Is Perfectly Possible To Live A Very Moral Life Without A Belief In God, And I Think It's Perfectly Possible To Live A Life Peppered With Ill-doing And Believe In God.

The Most Important Thing Is To Read As Much As You Can, Like I Did. It Will Give You An Understanding Of What Makes Good Writing And It Will Enlarge Your Vocabulary.

With All Of Their Benefits, And There Are Many, One Of The Things I Regret About E-books Is That They Have Taken Away The Necessity Of Trawling Foreign Bookshops Or The Shelves Of Holiday Houses To Find Something To Read. I've Come Across Gems And Stinkers That Way, And Both Can Be Fun.

I Think You're Working And Learning Until You Die.

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.

The Internet Has Been A Boon And A Curse For Teenagers.

When People Are Very Damaged, They Can Often Meet The World With A Kind Of Defiance.

Secretly We're All A Little More Absurd Than We Make Ourselves Out To Be.

On The Subject Of Literary Genres, I've Always Felt That My Response To Poetry Is Inadequate. I'd Love To Be The Kind Of Person That Drifts Off Into The Garden With A Slim Volume Of Elizabethan Verse Or A Sheaf Of Haikus, But My Passion Is Story.

The Best Of Us Must Sometimes Eat Our Words.

I Sometimes Have A Tendency To Walk On The Dark Side.

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. So As An Author, I Need To Write What I Need To Write.

Youth Cannot Know How Age Thinks And Feels. But Old Men Are Guilty If They Forget What It Was To Be Young.

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.

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.

I Feel 80% Of My Life Is Completely Normal.

'Harry Potter' Gave Me Back Self Respect. Harry Gave Me A Job To Do That I Loved More Than Anything Else.

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.

In Fact, You Couldn't Give Me Anything To Make Me Go Back To Being A Teenager. Never. No, I Hated It.

We Do Stigmatise Teens A Lot And See Them As Scary And Alien.

I Think I've Really Exhausted The Magical. It Was A Lot Of Fun, But I've Put It Behind Me For The Time Being.

It Is Our Choices... That Show What We Truly Are, Far More Than Our Abilities.

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.

Whatever The Reviewers Feel About 'The Casual Vacancy', It Is What I Wanted It To Be, And You Can't Say Fairer Than That As A Writer.

The Truth. It Is A Beautiful And Terrible Thing, And Must Therefore Be Treated With Great Caution.

I Really Don't Believe In Magic.

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.

I Like To Get In Among A Set Of People And Get To Know Them Very Well.

I Did Not Set Out To Convert Anyone To Christianity.

If You're Holding Out For Universal Popularity, I'm Afraid You Will Be In This Cabin For A Very Long Time.

Jane Austen Is The Pinnacle To Which All Other Authors Aspire.

Anything's Possible If You've Got Enough Nerve.

I Always Have A Basic Plot Outline, But I Like To Leave Some Things To Be Decided While I Write.

I've Never Managed To Keep A Journal Longer Than Two Weeks.

The First Story I Finished Was When I Was Six Years Old.

If Ever I Expected To Come Face To Face With An Angry Christian Fundamentalist, It Wasn't In Fao Schwarz.

I Always Felt An Outsider.

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.