Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
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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.
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He must have known I'd want to leave you." "No, he must have known you would always want to come back.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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Do you know what I think, Potter?' said Snape, very quietly. "I think that you are a liar and a cheat and that you deserve detention with me every Saturday until the end of term. What do you think, Potter?
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I don't mean to be rude—" he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable. "Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often," Dumbledore finished the sentence gravely.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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I received free health care.
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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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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.
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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 felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
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She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.
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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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On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon.
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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. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?
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Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back
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I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter —
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I've laid my friends bare.