J. K. Rowling Quotes

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

True, Watch, Measure

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

Failure, Live, Impossible

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

Often, Neglect, Dislike

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

Far, Show, Choices

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

Life, Fear, Rock

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling

Great, Friends, Stand

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.
J. K. Rowling

Fear, Yourself, Depression

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling

Trust, Brain, Keeps

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

Enough, Possible, Nerve

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

Power, Human, Whose

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling

Truth, Great, Beautiful

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

Good, Else, Hear

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

Dreams, Live, Forget

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.
J. K. Rowling

Work, Failure, Why

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

Life, Death, Big

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
J. K. Rowling

Home, Big, Whether

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Off, Idea

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

Worst, Choosing, Humans

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

Good, Important, Writing

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J. K. Rowling

Enough, Old, Moment

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.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Old, Keep

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

Fear, Name, Increases

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
J. K. Rowling

Internet, Teenagers, Curse

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
J. K. Rowling

Dark, Sometimes, Walk

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

Parents, College, Both

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: July 31, 1965

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