Joanne Rowling Quotes
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We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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I'm an emotional person.
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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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Don't let the muggles get you down.
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I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
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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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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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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.
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"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.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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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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Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.
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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.