Famous Quotes

Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
• I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
• 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 received free health care.
• I think you're working and learning until you die.
• I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
• I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
• I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
• 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.
• 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.
• It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
• It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.