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
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
This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN… — 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
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind. — 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
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
I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of… — 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
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
My daughter Jessica said to me recently, who wasn't sorted into Hufflepuff, 'I think we should all want to be Hufflepuffs.' I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms.… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind.… — 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
