J. K. Rowling Quotes

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J. K. Rowling

Profession : Author

Birth : July 31, 1965

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

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I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

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I always felt an outsider.

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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

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I don't need to publish to make a living.

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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

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

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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

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I think that I've had a very strange life.

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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.

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The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

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If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

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