I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I'll join you when Hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dumbledore's Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort's… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
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… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
As he followed Bill back to the others a wry though came to him, born no doubt of the wine he had drunk. He… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share
