J K Rowling Quotes

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

Death is just life's next big adventure.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

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.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.