Quotes By J. K. Rowling
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.
J. K. Rowling
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling
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.
J. K. Rowling
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
J. K. Rowling
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.
J. K. Rowling
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.
J. K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. Rowling
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.
J. K. Rowling
If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.
J. K. Rowling
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
J. K. Rowling
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.
J. K. Rowling
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.
J. K. Rowling