asdasdActually finishing it was the most remarkable feeling I've ever had... [I felt] euphoria, devastated... I was in a hotel room on my own, sobbing my heart out. I downed half a bottle of champagne in one and went home with mascara all over my face.
J. K. Rowling
On finishing her seventh and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.
I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
J. K. Rowling
How the Harry Potter tale came to her during a delayed train journey.
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
J. K. Rowling
Probably the very best thing my earnings have given me is absense of worry. I have not forgotten what it feels like to worry whether you'll have enough to pay the bills. Not to have to think about that any more is the biggest luxury in the world.
J. K. Rowling
If you've literally been worrying, "Will the money last until the end of the week?" you will never, ever complain about having money.
J. K. Rowling
I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.
J. K. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being Jane Austen, being able to sit at home in the parsonage and your books would be very famous.
J. K. Rowling
I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the beach through long lenses.
J. K. Rowling
On how she felt besieged by the press.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with caution.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no....anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just exist. As an empty shell.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
It is my belief... that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
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
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right, and what is easy.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human … the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
Time is making fools of us again.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
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