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Children Quotes by J. K. Rowling

18 Children quotes by J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling’s take on kids feels like a gentle reminder of the magic that lives in every child’s heart. She celebrates imagination, courage, and the transformative power of storytelling, weaving each insight with the same warmth found in her novels. The set is compact yet uplifting, perfect for a quick dose of inspiration.

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I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

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If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

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There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always,…

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I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

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I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms.…

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Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up…

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The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

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I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.

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The idea that we could have a child who escapes from the confines of the adult world and goes somewhere where he…

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If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

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I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition…

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My daughter Jessica said to me recently, who wasn't sorted into Hufflepuff, 'I think we should all want to be Hufflepuffs.' I…

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On her daughter, Jessica: Kids at her school will sidle up to me and say, Does Jessica know what happens in book…

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I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because…

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Children's books aren't textbooks. Their primary purpose isn't supposed to be "Pick this up and it will teach you this." It's not…

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I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I…

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Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'…

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Harry's status as orphan gives him a freedom other children can only dream about (guiltily, of course). No child wants to lose…

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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

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... there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.

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Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

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“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…

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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…

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What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

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

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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…

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I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

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The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,…

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You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.

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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…

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