J. K. Rowling

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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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.

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.

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

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.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

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

I think you're working and learning until you die.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.