(Joanne “Jo” Rowling) is the British author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million copies, and been the basis for a popular series of films, in which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final installment.
Rowling conceived the idea for the series on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990.
(1965 – )
– J. K. Rowling Quotes –
To hurt is as human as to breathe.
~ J. K. Rowling
Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
~ J. K. Rowling
There aren’t that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I’ve ever had. (I) couldn’t tell you which was uppermost – euphoria or feeling devastated.
~ J. K. Rowling
Always the innocent are the first victims…. So it has been for ages past, so it is now.
~ J. K. Rowling
One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.
~ J. K. Rowling
There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
~ J. K. Rowling
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
~ J. K. Rowling
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
~ J. K. Rowling
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
~ J. K. Rowling
We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
~ J. K. Rowling
Decent people are so easy to manipulate.
~ J. K. Rowling
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death. He accepts that he must die, and understands that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying.
~ J. K. Rowling
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.
~ J. K. Rowling
Taunting Death means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose.
~ J. K. Rowling
Always use the proper names for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
~ J. K. Rowling
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
~ J. K. Rowling
I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
~ J. K. Rowling
Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.
~ J. K. Rowling
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
~ J. K. Rowling
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
~ J. K. Rowling
Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
~ J. K. Rowling
Have you any idea how much tyrants fear the people they oppress? All of them realize that, one day, amongst their many victims, there is sure to be one who rises against them and strikes back!
~ J. K. Rowling
If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
~ J. K. Rowling
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.
~ J. K. Rowling
It is our choices … that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
~ J. K. Rowling
