Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

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

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.

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.

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

I received free health care.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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

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 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?

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.

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

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.