Quotes By J. K. Rowling

I think that I've had a very strange life.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

I always felt an outsider.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

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.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

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.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

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.

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

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

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'm not a natural joiner.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

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

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

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.

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.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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.

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.