Quotes from J. K. Rowling

Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.

He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

From now on, I don't care if my tea leaves spell 'Die, Ron, Die,' I'm chucking them in the bin where they belong.

IF WE DIE FOR THEM, I'LL KILL YOU, HARRY!

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.

We're all going to keep fighting, Harry. You know that?

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

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.

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.

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

Death is a great adventure for a man with a well-organized mind.

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

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

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

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

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

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

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.