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"50 J. K. Rowling Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 31 July 1965 | Author | Film producer | screenwriter | Philanthropist |

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

Convinced Ever Novels Only
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Ability Choices Far More
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

Equals He His How
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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 have failed by default.

Case Default Failed Failing
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
Damage Dislike Indifference More
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

Bravery Deal Enemies Friends
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There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Each Ending Liking Other
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
Finished First Old Six
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

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

After Again Carry Harry
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Anything Enough Got Nerve
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Death is just life's next big adventure.

Adventure Big Death Just
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Fear Increases Itself Name
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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Else Even Good Good Sign
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Did Even Foolproof He
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

Choosing Humans Knack Precisely
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

Afraid Cabin Holding Long
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
Does Dreams Dwell Forget
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

Against Ashamed Bothering Hold
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

Anything Brain Itself Keeps
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Best Eat Must Our
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The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Beautiful Caution Great Must
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

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

Age Cannot Feels Forget
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I really don't believe in magic.
Believe Magic Really Don't
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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.

Dreams Expected I Write Just
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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.

Amusing Backgrounds Been Both
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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Enough Lies Moment Old
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Against Anyone Fates Intelligence
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets 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 by fools.

Climbing Depression Efforts Entails
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Away Failure Means Stripping
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I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Adored Became Because Been
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Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

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

Best Could Did Had
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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.

About Anything Away Because
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
Everything Novel Resist Tell
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Been Far Give Given
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I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
Feel I Feel Life My Life
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

Awhile Bliss Cafe Idea
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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.

Best Class Classes Find
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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.

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

Because Dreamt Fame Fame Thing
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The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

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

Always Basic Decided I Write
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Journal Keep Longer Never
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Did Give Good Good Writing
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I am the freest author in the world.
Am Author I Am World
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I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Anyone Christianity Convert Did
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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.

Belief Believe God I Think
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Any Form Fundamentalism Opposed
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J. K. Rowling Quotes & Sayings