Quotes by J. K. Rowling

Whats life without a little risk?-Sirius Black

You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak

Harry Potter gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if youre well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think theyre used to seeing me walking around, so I dont think Im a very big deal.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. Its totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

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

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

Death is just lifes next big adventure.

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

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

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I think youre working and learning until you die.

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

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.

I dont read chick lit, fantasy or science fiction but Ill give any book a chance if its lying there and Ive got half an hour to kill.

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 was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.