Joanne Rowling Quotes
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They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin
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Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
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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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Well, think back," said Harry. "Have you ever let it slip that you'd like to go out in public with the words 'My Sweetheart' round your neck?
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Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.
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I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.
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I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.
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Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.
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I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.
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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.
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I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.
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As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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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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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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I think you're working and learning until you die.
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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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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.
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Get up, you useless lump, get up!
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Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.