Joanne Rowling Quotes
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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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.
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
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Bad news, Harry. I've just been to see Professor McGonagall about the Firebolt. She – er, got a bit shirty with me. Told me I'd got my priorities wrong. Seemed to think I cared more about winning the Cup than I do about staying alive. Just because I told her I didn't care if it threw you off, as long as you caught the Snitch first.
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.
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I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.
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But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
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Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.
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I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
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You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.
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They heard the click of the mail slot and flop of letters on the doormat. "Get the mail, Dudley," said Uncle Vernon from behind his paper. "Make Harry get it." "Get the mail, Harry." "Make Dudley get it." "Poke him with your Smelting stick, Dudley.
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Amazing, how much more difficult it was to extend his arm twelve inches and touch her hand than it was to snatch a speeding Snitch from midair.
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I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
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Get up, you useless lump, get up!
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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.