J. K. Rowling
Quotations
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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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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” -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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“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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“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 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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“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.” -J. K. Rowling
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“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.” -J. K. Rowling
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“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.” -J. K. Rowling
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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.” -J. K. Rowling
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“I think you’re working and learning until you die.” -J. K. Rowling
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“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
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“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.” -J. K. Rowling
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“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” -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 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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“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” -J. K. Rowling
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“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.” -J. K. Rowling
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“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.” -J. K. Rowling
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“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.” -J. K. Rowling
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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.” -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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“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours’ writing. Nothing.” -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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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
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