“I think finishing the books, it’s definitely been a release. I feel more relaxed. I thought, I can come here now and crash and burn. What does it matter”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: Endings, Harry Potter
“It was a bereavement. It was huge. Although I knew it was coming, we all know that the people we love are mortal, we all know we’re mortal, we know it’s going to end; you can’t prepare yourself for it. So even though I always knew it would be seven books, that was it, I knew how it was going to end,…”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: Endings, Harry Potter, Over
“This may surprise people, but in many, many ways Hufflepuff is my favorite house.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: J.K Rowling Quotes, Harry Potter
“A woman can fight just the same as a man can fight.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: Women's Rights, Women Power, Equality
“I’ve no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Ideas, Dreaming, wishing
“Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.”— J.K Rowling, mugglenet.comTagged: Do Best, Work Hard, Do Good
“Well, I want to write’, and I wrote the book and what is the worst than can happen? It gets turned down by every publisher in Britain, big deal.”— J.K Rowling, telegraph.co.ukTagged: Writing, Dreams, Publishers
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”— J.K. Rowling, youtube.comTagged: impossible, Dream, Dreaming
“And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: Rock Bottom, Inspirational Speeches
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.comTagged: Good Lives, Do Well, Do Good
“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: Take Control, Life Quotes, Living
“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.”— J.K Rowling, dailymail.co.ukTagged: Fat Quotes, shallow, Vain
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.”— J.K Rowling, harvardmagazine.comTagged: Failing, Dreams, Chasing Your Dreams
“Humans have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.comTagged: humans, Choosing, Wrong Choices
“One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic.”— J.K Rowling, news.bbc.co.ukTagged: Regrets, Reading, Writing
“We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: Magic, Change the World, Do Good
“Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.”— J.K Rowling, youtube.comTagged: monsters, Apathy, Evil
“I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What's to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.”— J.K Rowling, usatoday30.usatoday.comTagged: Depression, Suicide Awareness