Quotes from J. K. Rowling

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

Abundance is the quality of life you live and quality of life you give to others.

Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

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

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.

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

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

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.

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.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

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.

Death is just life's next big adventure.