Quotes By Author: J.K. Rowling

“Human efforts to avoid or overcome death are always doomed to disappointment.”

“Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could havemade me do it, or prevented me from doing it.”

“Something very magical happens when you read a good book:)”

“I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.”

“I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

“Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have “essential” and “long overdue” meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.”

“What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.”

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

“Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.”

“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”