Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your… — 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
Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I would be a liar if I said I don't care [about my appearance]; yes, I care. I found it very difficult,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
George: "I can't see anyone trying to bump off a quidditch team." Fred: "Wood might've done the Slytherins if he could've got… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist! — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas… — 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 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 ideas about… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
