'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
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had. - J.K. Rowling
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. - 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
Connect with
Login with Facebook