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
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. - J.K. Rowling
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. - 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
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. - J.K. Rowling
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. - J.K. Rowling
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. - J.K. Rowling
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. - J.K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. - J.K. Rowling
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. - 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
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. - J.K. Rowling
