Joanne Rowling, born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, film producer, television producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history.
- If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
- It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J. K. Rowling
- It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
- 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.
- I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
- The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
- Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
- 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.
- Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
- 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.
- 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.
- It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
- Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
- I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.