39 quotes by J. K. Rowling

“'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.” — J. K. Rowling

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“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

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“I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.” — J. K. Rowling

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“I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?” — J. K. Rowling

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“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.” — J. K. Rowling

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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.” — J. K. Rowling

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“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.” — J. K. Rowling

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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.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.” — J. K. Rowling

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“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.” — J. K. Rowling

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“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.” — J. K. Rowling

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“Death is just life's next big adventure.” — J. K. Rowling

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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” — J. K. Rowling

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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.” — J. K. Rowling

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