J. K. Rowling

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping…

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding…

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure…

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather…

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

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and…

I think you’re working and learning until you die…

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had…

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

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live…

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally…

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps…

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never…

I don’t read ‘chick lit,’ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a…

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more…