The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.
I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
I have a real issue with anyone trying to protect children from their own imaginations. If we cannot acknowledge that a lot of us have a bit of darkness within ourselves, some more than others perhaps, and bring it into the light and examine it and t...
Very early on in writing the series, I remember a female journalist saying to me that Mrs Weasley, 'Well, you know, she’s just a mother.' And I was absolutely incensed by that comment. Now, I consider myself to be a feminist, and I’d always wante...
Merry Christmas," said George. "Don't go downstairs for a bit." "Why not?" said Ron. "Mum's crying again," said Fred heavily. "Percy sent back his Christmas jumper." [I guess that's a sweater, though my jury is still out on it until I get a future co...
I mean, you could claim that real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's it doesn't exist!
You can't live without failing at something, unless you love so cautiously you might as well have nit lived at all, in which case, you fail be default.
Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sa...
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there, because it’s not sadness. I know sadness. Sadness is to cry and to feel. But it’s that cold absence of feeling— that really hollowed-out feeling.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
Come, daddy, Harry doesn't want to talk to us right now. He's just to polite to say it"~Luna Lovegood
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathi...
Those who choose not to empathise enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it, through our own apathy.
Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged.
