Quotes By J. K. Rowling

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

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

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

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.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

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 remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

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.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

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.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

I just hate meetings.

I'm pro Union.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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.

There's no formula.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.