Jk Rowling Quotes
If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.
The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.
There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.
Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.
Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."
There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.
I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.
You’ve got to give the door something?’‘Yes, ’ said Dumbledore. ‘Blood, if I am not much mistak
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.
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.
Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears."After all this time?""Always, " said Snape.
Snape's patronus was a doe, ' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.I wish you all very good lives.
Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...
The thing about growing up with Fred and George, " said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.
Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.
I am what I am, an’ I’m not ashamed. 'Never be ashamed, ’ my ol’ dad used ter say, ‘there’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth botherin’ with.
Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also
I am not worried, Harry, " said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you.
Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people, " said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...
You haven't got a letter on yours, " George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.
Don't talk to me.""Why not?""Because I want to fix that in my memory for ever. Draco Malfoy, the amazing bouncing ferret...
Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students."Don’t let it worry you, " said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?
Where is Wood?" said Harry, suddenly realizing he wasn't there."Still in the showers, " said Fred. "We think he's trying to drown himself.
I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable."Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often, " Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.
I dreamed I was buying new shoes last night, " said Ron. "What d'ya think that's gonna mean?""Probably that you're going to be eaten by a giant marshmallow or something, " said Harry.
So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —”“Don’t talk to your mother like that.
The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are...
His eyes are as green as a fresh pickled toad, His hair is as dark as a blackboard.I wish he was mine, he's really divine, The hero who conquered the Dark Lord.
Don't forget to give Neville our love!' Ginny told James as she hugged him.!' Neville-'James rolled his eyes.....
I knew I could do it all this time, ” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?
And it's Gryfindor in possession again, as Johnson takes the Quaffle— Flint alongside her —poke him in the eye, Angelina —it was a joke, professor, it was a joke...
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons, " said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.
Oh, of course, " said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.
Ask us no questions and we’ll tell you no lies.
I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...”“Yes, they do that, ” said Dumbledore.