Top 1404 Quotes & Sayings by J. K. Rowling - Page 2

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing?

There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.

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.

I'm not a natural joiner.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

I am the freest author in the world.

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.

I think that I've had a very strange life.

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

I'm an emotional person.

I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.

Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn't in FAO Schwarz.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

I'm pro Union.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. 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.

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.

I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

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.

I've laid my friends bare.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.

I received free health care.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

I would always want printed books.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.

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.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

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

I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.

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.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.