Quotes from J. K. Rowling

There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. 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.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

I've laid my friends bare.

I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —" "THEN — I — DON'T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!" Harry roared.

I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

You've got to appreciate what the worst is. You don't want to find yourself in a situation where you're facing it.

I gave my hero a talent I'd love to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

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.

Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

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

The sooner this wedding's over the happier I'll be." [Ron] "Yeah" said Harry, "then we'll have nothing to do except find Horcruxes....It'll be like a holiday, won't it?

Perhaps just one more, Master Harry, for luck?

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

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

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.