3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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?
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling ‘Harry Potter’ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling 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.
3 December 2020 J. K. Rowling Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
