What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal. — 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… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always,… — 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
Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that - God, I'm about to make myself cry but,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm… — 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
The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I definitely know that-that love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that-God, I'm about to make myself… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than… — 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