Quotes from J. K. Rowling

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. '…then I declare you bonded for life.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

There's no formula.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

Failure, failure is so important, it doesn't get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.

there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be

The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrell's turban straight into Harry's eyes — and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harry's forehead.

We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

I think it's alarming that people believe that success enables one to forget how life felt before. As if one could simply exchange one's values.

But I was willing to embrace mortal life again, before chasing immortality.

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

Life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement.

If he doesn't stop trying to save your life he's going to kill you.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.