Top 50 J K Rowling Quotes to Inspire Strength Through Adversity

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.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

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

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.

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

Thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else.

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.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

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.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

We're all human, aren't we? every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

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.

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

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.