Quotes from J. K. Rowling

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

We all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we're mortal, we know it's going to end; you cannot prepare yourself for it.

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn't turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.

Love is the strongest power there is.

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!

Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.

Love wins. It does win. We know it wins.

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.

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?

Don't talk to me." "Why not?" "Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret.

Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.

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