Quotes By J. K. Rowling

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.

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

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

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.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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