To rise above the modifications of your mind, when you cease your mind, when you cease to be a part of your mind, that is yoga.
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. - 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
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. - 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 believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful. - J.K. Rowling
I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal. - 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 hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so. - 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.
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