J. K. Rowling Quotes

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J. K. Rowling

Profession : Author

Birth : July 31, 1965

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

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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.

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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.

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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

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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.

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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

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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.

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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.

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I really don't believe in magic.

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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

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