J. K. Rowling Quotes And Sayings

Failure Means A Stripping Away Of The Inessential.

I Would Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Did The Best She Could With The Talent She Had.

Why Do I Talk About The Benefits Of Failure? Simply Because Failure Meant A Stripping Away Of The Inessential. I Stopped Pretending To Myself That I Was Anything Other Than What I Was, And Began To Direct All My Energy Into Finishing The Only Work That Mattered To Me.

And The Idea Of Just Wandering Off To A Cafe With A Notebook And Writing And Seeing Where That Takes Me For Awhile Is Just Bliss.

The Fame Thing Is Interesting Because I Never Wanted To Be Famous, And I Never Dreamt I Would Be Famous.

Humans Have A Knack For Choosing Precisely The Things That Are Worst For Them.

The Most Important Thing Is To Read As Much As You Can, Like I Did. It Will Give You An Understanding Of What Makes Good Writing And It Will Enlarge Your Vocabulary.

It Is Perfectly Possible To Live A Very Moral Life Without A Belief In God, And I Think It's Perfectly Possible To Live A Life Peppered With Ill-doing And Believe In God.

I Think You're Working And Learning Until You Die.

With All Of Their Benefits, And There Are Many, One Of The Things I Regret About E-books Is That They Have Taken Away The Necessity Of Trawling Foreign Bookshops Or The Shelves Of Holiday Houses To Find Something To Read. I've Come Across Gems And Stinkers That Way, And Both Can Be Fun.

The Internet Has Been A Boon And A Curse For Teenagers.

When People Are Very Damaged, They Can Often Meet The World With A Kind Of Defiance.

If You Love Something - And There Are Things That I Love - You Do Want More And More And More Of It, But That's Not The Way To Produce Good Work.

Secretly We're All A Little More Absurd Than We Make Ourselves Out To Be.

If You Love Something - And There Are Things That I Love - You Do Want More And More And More Of It, But That's Not The Way To Produce Good Work. So As An Author, I Need To Write What I Need To Write.

On The Subject Of Literary Genres, I've Always Felt That My Response To Poetry Is Inadequate. I'd Love To Be The Kind Of Person That Drifts Off Into The Garden With A Slim Volume Of Elizabethan Verse Or A Sheaf Of Haikus, But My Passion Is Story.

The Best Of Us Must Sometimes Eat Our Words.

It Does Not Do To Dwell On Dreams And Forget To Live.

Youth Cannot Know How Age Thinks And Feels. But Old Men Are Guilty If They Forget What It Was To Be Young.

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.

I Feel 80% Of My Life Is Completely Normal.

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.

No, There Is Literally Nothing On The Business Side That I Wouldn't Sacrifice In A Heartbeat To Have An Extra Couple Of Hours' Writing. Nothing.

In Fact, You Couldn't Give Me Anything To Make Me Go Back To Being A Teenager. Never. No, I Hated It.

'Harry Potter' Gave Me Back Self Respect. Harry Gave Me A Job To Do That I Loved More Than Anything Else.

We Do Stigmatise Teens A Lot And See Them As Scary And Alien.

I Think I've Really Exhausted The Magical. It Was A Lot Of Fun, But I've Put It Behind Me For The Time Being.

Whatever The Reviewers Feel About 'The Casual Vacancy', It Is What I Wanted It To Be, And You Can't Say Fairer Than That As A Writer.

Never Trust Anything That Can Think For Itself If You Can't See Where It Keeps Its Brain.

The Truth. It Is A Beautiful And Terrible Thing, And Must Therefore Be Treated With Great Caution.

My Favorite Literary Heroine Is Jo March. It Is Hard To Overstate What She Meant To A Small, Plain Girl Called Jo, Who Had A Hot Temper And A Burning Ambition To Be A Writer.

I Really Don't Believe In Magic.

Every Now And Then I Read A Poem That Does Touch Something In Me, But I Never Turn To Poetry For Solace Or Pleasure In The Way That I Throw Myself Into Prose.

Every Now And Then I Read A Poem That Does Touch Something In Me, But I Never Turn To Poetry For Solace Or Pleasure In The Way That I Throw Myself Into Prose.

I Did Not Set Out To Convert Anyone To Christianity.

Jane Austen Is The Pinnacle To Which All Other Authors Aspire.

If You're Holding Out For Universal Popularity, I'm Afraid You Will Be In This Cabin For A Very Long Time.

There Are Some Things You Can't Share Without Ending Up Liking Each Other.

I Always Have A Basic Plot Outline, But I Like To Leave Some Things To Be Decided While I Write.

I've Never Managed To Keep A Journal Longer Than Two Weeks.

The First Story I Finished Was When I Was Six Years Old.

I Always Felt An Outsider.

If Ever I Expected To Come Face To Face With An Angry Christian Fundamentalist, It Wasn't In Fao Schwarz.

I Don't Think I Am Evangelical In My Work.

The Poor Are Discussed As This Homogeneous Mash, Like Porridge. The Idea That They Might Be Individuals, And Be Where They Are For Very Different, Diverse Reasons, Again Seems To Escape Some People.

Death Obsesses Me, Yes It Does. I Can't Really Understand Why It Doesn't Obsess Everyone - I Think It Does Really, I'm Just A Little More Out About It.

Some Of The Furor That Surrounded A Harry Potter Publication Was Fun.

Honestly, I Think We Should Be Delighted People Still Want To Read, Be It On A Kindle Or A Nook Or Whatever The Latest Device Is.

I Remember The First Time I Heard A Teenager Say 'Lol.' Just What? But It Means 'Laugh.' Why Don't You Just Laugh? What Are You Doing?

You Lose Your Individuality A Huge Amount When You Have No Money, And I Certainly Had That Experience.