J. K. Rowling Quotes

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

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.
J. K. Rowling

Wise, Give, Moral

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?
J. K. Rowling

Time, Laugh, Remember

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
J. K. Rowling

Whatever, Read, Latest

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
J. K. Rowling

Against, Worth, Hold

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

Writing, After, Again

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
J. K. Rowling

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling

Aspire, Pinnacle, Austen

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling

Age, Men, Forget

I always felt an outsider.
J. K. Rowling

I'm pro Union.
J. K. Rowling

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
J. K. Rowling

Often, Meet, Defiance

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

Wanted, Write, Convinced

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
J. K. Rowling

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

Failure, Away, Means

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

Knowledge, Nothing, Rather

I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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

Dreams, Wanted, Write

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.
J. K. Rowling

Country, Why, Stay

I received free health care.
J. K. Rowling

Health, Care, Free

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
J. K. Rowling

Book, Write, Times

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
J. K. Rowling

Against, Talent, Anyone

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling

Great, Death, Mind

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
J. K. Rowling

Scary, Alien, Teens

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
J. K. Rowling

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: July 31, 1965

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