Best J.K. Rowling Quotes
Joanne “Jo” Rowling, is a British novelist, her pen name is J.K. Rowling. She is the creator of one of the most popular fantasy book “Harry Potter”; one of the well known film franchise of the fantasy series. Here are few magical quotes by J.K. Rowling.
- “The stories we love best do live in us forever.” - J.K. Rowling
- “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.” - J.K. Rowling
- “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 fail by default.” - J.K. Rowling
- “No story lives unless someone wants to listen.” - J.K. Rowling
- “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” - J.K. Rowling
- “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.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” - J.K. Rowling
- “If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.” - J.K. Rowling
- “The only way out is through.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” - J.K. Rowling
- “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.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.” - J.K. Rowling
- “I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.” - J.K. Rowling
- “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” - J.K. Rowling
- “The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.” - J.K. Rowling
- “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” - J.K. Rowling
- “The best of us must sometimes eat our words.” - J.K. Rowling
- “I think you’re working and learning until you die. I can with my hand on my heart say I will never write for any reason other than I burningly wanted to write the book.” - J.K. Rowling
- “When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” - J.K. Rowling
- “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Ah, music,” he said, wiping his eyes. “A magic beyond all we do here!” - J.K. Rowling
- “He must have known I’d want to leave you.” “No, he must have known you would always want to come back.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Curiosity is not a sin…. But we should exercise caution with our curiosity… yes, indeed.” - J.K. Rowling
- “There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.” - J.K. Rowling
- “To hurt is as human as to breathe.” - J.K. Rowling
- “You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?” - J.K. Rowling
- “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” - J.K. Rowling
- “I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? “You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!”” - J.K. Rowling
- “Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.” - J.K. Rowling
- “So ultimately, the people who have read the book, who are not paid to have an opinion, are generally the best benchmark of whether you have done what you set out to do.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.” - J.K. Rowling
- “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives.” - J.K. Rowling
- “It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don’t eat the macaroni pies.” - J.K. Rowling
- “The mind is a complex and many-layered thing” - J.K. Rowling
- “I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!” - J.K. Rowling
- “Don’t let the muggles get you down.” - J.K. Rowling
- “Some failure in life is inevitable. 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 fail by default.” - J.K. Rowling
- “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, responsibility lies with you.” - J.K. Rowling
- “I didn’t write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children — children’s books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.” - J.K. Rowling
- “There’s nothing better when something comes and hits you and you think ‘YES’!” - J.K. Rowling
The above were some of the amazing quotes by J.W. Rowling; we hope that you must have enjoyed reading them. If you have more quotes by J.W. Rowling, do feel free to share them in the comments section.
