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Type: Author
Category: English Author
Date of Birth: July 31, 1965
Nationality: English

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Death is just life's next big adventure.
J. K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. Rowling

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
J. K. Rowling

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
J. K. Rowling

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
J. K. Rowling

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
J. K. Rowling

I really don't believe in magic.
J. K. Rowling

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
J. K. Rowling

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. Rowling

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

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
J. K. Rowling

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
J. K. Rowling

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
J. K. Rowling

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
J. K. Rowling

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. Rowling

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

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J. K. Rowling

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling

There's no formula.
J. K. Rowling

To the philosopher, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. Rowling

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling

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