Quotes by J. K. Rowling

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

I received free health care.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you cant see where it keeps its brain.

The middle class is so funny, its the class I know best, and its the class where you find the most pretension, so thats what makes the middle classes so funny.

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.

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.

On the subject of literary genres, Ive always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. Id love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

Im interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term its quite a satisfying thing to do, isnt it?

“Would you like me to [kill you] now? asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?”