Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write
novels.
If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be
in this cabin for a very long time.
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.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where
it keeps its brain.
Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to
be.
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.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if
they forget what it was to be young.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst
for them.
I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far
more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his
inferiors, not his equals.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re
not worth bothering with.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a
thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by
your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but
poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough
nerve.
Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
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.
I really don’t believe in magic.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could
with the talent she had.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright
dislike.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an
adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until
Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would
actually want to read about a 65-year-old Harry still at Hogwarts
playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and
I never dreamt I would be famous.
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each
other.
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.
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
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.
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 will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want
to publish again after Harry Potter.
In a novel, you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just
as much to stand up to our friends.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must, therefore,
be treated with great caution.
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will
always be there to welcome you home.
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and
writing and seeing where that takes me for a while is just bliss.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the
wizarding world.
It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our
abilities.
The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies
with you.
What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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