J K Rowling Quotes:- J K Rowling (born 31 July 1965) is a British author, film producer, television producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history.
Inspirational J K Rowling Quotes
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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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.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.
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Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must, therefore, be treated with great caution.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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Most Inspiring J K Rowling Quotes
What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
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You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
J K Rowling
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.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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Failure means stripping away of the inessential.
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Famous J K Rowling Quotes About Life
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.
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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.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
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People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65-year-old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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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.
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In a novel, you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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Best Quotes by J K Rowling
I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss.
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The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.
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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.
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I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean someday, 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.
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Powerful Quotes on J K Rowling
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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I’ve never managed to keep a journal for longer than two weeks.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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I am the freest author in the world.
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There was a point where I really felt I had ‘penniless divorcee lone parent’ tattooed on my head.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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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.
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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.
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I’ve been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don’t need to write a book for adults.
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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.
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I think you’re working and learning until you die.
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I received free health care.
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I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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‘Harry Potter’ gave me back self-respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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I’m 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 it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?
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In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.
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I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
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If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.
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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.
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Greatest J K Rowling Quotes
I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.
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On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d 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 the story.
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We’re a phenomenally snobby society, and it’s such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.
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The moment I said I’d finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who’d got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I’d written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
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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?
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I would always want printed books.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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Top 10 J K Rowling Quotes And Sayings
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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I think that I’ve had a very strange life.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
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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.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about ‘The Casual Vacancy’, it is what I wanted it to be, and you can’t say fairer than that as a writer.
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I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.
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