J. K. Rowling Quotes

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J. K. Rowling

Profession : Author

Birth : July 31, 1965

Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.

J. K. Rowling

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

J. K. Rowling

I've laid my friends bare.

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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

J. K. Rowling

I would always want printed books.

J. K. Rowling

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

J. K. Rowling

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

J. K. Rowling

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

J. K. Rowling

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

J. K. Rowling

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

J. K. Rowling

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

J. K. Rowling

I am the freest author in the world.

J. K. Rowling

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

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I'm not a natural joiner.

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I received free health care.

J. K. Rowling

When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.

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I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

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