J. K. Rowling (b. 1965)

Quotes

• Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

• When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

• It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

• ...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

• Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

• It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

• Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

• Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy.

• Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

• What's comin' will come and we'll meet it when it does.

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.

• The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

• Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

• 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, the responsibility lies with you.

• It is not an ennobling experience. 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 something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.

• Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

• 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.

• Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.