What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. - Beethoven
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes. - Beethoven
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. - J.K. Rowling
Are you the sort of person who gloats when they see a woman fall, or the kind that celebrates a magnificent recovery? - J.K. Rowling
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. - J.K. Rowling
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. - J.K. Rowling
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else. - 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
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. - J.K. Rowling
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill. - 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.
I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character. - J.K. Rowling
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
I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going. - J.K. Rowling
