Ah…I wondered when I would be meeting you. It seems only yesterday your mother and father were in here buying their first wands.
J.K. Rowling
- Born
- 1965
- Occupations
- film producer, writer, novelist
- Notable works
- Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
J.K. Rowling
Harry did not usually lie in bed reading his textbooks; that sort of behaviour, as Ron rightly said, was indecent in anybody except Hermione, who was simply weird that way.
J.K. Rowling
I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.
J.K. Rowling
“I’d love to go with you as friends! Nobody’s ever asked me to a party before, as a friend!”
J.K. Rowling
I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J.K. Rowling
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being–forgive me–rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
J.K. Rowling
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J.K. Rowling
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. Hermione Granger
J.K. Rowling
Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
J.K. Rowling
There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J.K. Rowling
Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.
J.K. Rowling
“You prat Ron, look at the state of her!” “Ginny, don’t call Ron a prat, you’re not the captain of this team—” “Well, you seemed too busy to call him a prat and I thought someone should.”
J.K. Rowling
You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
J.K. Rowling