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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
Joanne Rowling -
Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see.
Joanne Rowling
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Harry: "And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” Ron: “Throw it away and punch him on the nose.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
Joanne Rowling -
Killed?" said Hagrid loudly, staring down at Harry. "Snape killed? What're yeh on abou', Harry?" "Dumbledore," said Harry. "Snape killed... Dumbledore.
Joanne Rowling -
The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.
Joanne Rowling -
Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again...
Joanne Rowling
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
Joanne Rowling -
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
Joanne Rowling -
In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
Joanne 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.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.
Joanne Rowling -
Don't let the muggles get you down.
Joanne Rowling -
Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
Joanne Rowling
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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
Joanne Rowling -
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
Joanne Rowling -
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .
Joanne Rowling -
"Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.
Joanne Rowling