Quotes from J. K. Rowling

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

You're a wizard, Harry.

I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

Size is no guarantee of power.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

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

Now, it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

I don't read 'chick lit, ' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I'm afraid.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

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