Top 1404 Quotes & Sayings by J. K. Rowling - Page 24

I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

I'm a very distracted person.

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.

I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.

Love wins. It does win. We know it wins.

It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.

I'm sure that I'll never have another success like Harry Potter for the rest of my life, no matter how many books I write, and no matter whether they're good or bad.

I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.

I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else.

You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

Many parts of my life are perfectly ordinary, if that's what you mean. One could even call it boring, but that's what I like about it.

There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

The success of Harry Potter has given me lots of freedom. I can pay my bills, and I don't have to prove anything to anyone anymore.

I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind of a yen to do that.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is with what was going on in my life at the time. I was mourning the loss of this world that I had written for so long and loved so much. I was also mourning the retreat it had been from - from ordinary life, which it has been. And it forced me to look back at 17 years of my life and remember things.

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters.