Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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.

I really don't believe in magic.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

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.

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 would always want printed books.

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.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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.

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

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 love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

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.

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