Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Death is just life's next big adventure.
J. K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. Rowling

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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

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

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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.
J. K. Rowling

I really don't believe in magic.
J. K. Rowling


I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
J. K. Rowling

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.
J. K. Rowling

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
J. K. Rowling

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling

If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling

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.
J. K. Rowling

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling