The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes, ’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak
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.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
