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.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. - J.K. Rowling
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. - J.K. Rowling
The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. - J.K. Rowling
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why. - 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 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. - J.K. Rowling
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. - J.K. Rowling
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. - J.K. Rowling
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. - J.K. Rowling
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head. - 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
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. - J.K. Rowling
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. - J.K. Rowling
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