J. K. Rowling Quotes About Imagine, Magic, Believe, Bliss

J. K. Rowling Quotes:

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
J. K. Rowling

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Death is just life’s next big adventure.
J. K. Rowling

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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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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‘Harry Potter’ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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J. K. Rowling with Husband
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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I always felt an outsider.
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I am proud of having done what I’ve done. Very proud.
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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.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It’s totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.
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I really don’t believe in magic.
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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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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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I think you’re working and learning until you die.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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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.
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Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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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 have failed by default.
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It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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