Quotes by J. K. Rowling

About J. K. Rowling:

Joanne is a British novelist best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films which is the second highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.
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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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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 w...

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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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Death is just life's next big adventure.

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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 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.

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

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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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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 love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

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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. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

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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 that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

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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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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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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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

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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

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I think that I've had a very strange life.

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Author Bio

  • NameJ. K. Rowling
  • DescriptionBritish novelist
  • AliasesJoanne "Jo" Rowling; Robert Galbraith; J K Rowling; Joanne Kathleen Rowling; JK Rowling; Joanne K. Rowling; Rowling, J. K.
  • BornJuly 31, 1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionFilm Producer; Writer; Novelist; Teacher; Children's Writer
  • WorksHarry Potter
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Officer Of The Order Of The British Empire; Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award; Princess Of Asturias Award - Concord