Quotes from J. K. Rowling

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

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

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.

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

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

Wit beyond measure is a man's greatest treasure.

Dumbledore's man through and through, aren't you Potter?" "Yeah I am," said Harry. "Glad we straightened that out.

The Hallows, the Hallows. A desperate man's dream!

A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman — Spell It Or He'll Swing!

The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

The happiest man on earth would be able to use the Mirror of Erised like a normal mirror, that is, he would look into it and see himself exactly as he is. Does that help?

It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men.

Every hour that passed added to her grief, because it bore her further away from the living man, and because it was a tiny foretaste of the eternity she would have to spend without him.

Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.

So why in the name of Merlin's saggy left —" "Don't talk to your mother like that.

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

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

Ah, well, people can be stupid abou' their pets," said Hagrid wisely.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.

What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.

You see, I, unlike you, have been made a prefect, which means that I, unlike you, have the power to hand out punishments." "Yeah," said Harry, "but you, unlike me, are a git.

For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .