Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
J. K. ROWLINGAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
More J. K. Rowling Quotes
-
-
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J. K. ROWLING -
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
J. K. ROWLING -
A good first impression can work wonders.
J. K. ROWLING -
Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
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 -
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
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 -
I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
J. K. ROWLING -
Depression is very different.
J. K. ROWLING -
Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
J. K. ROWLING -
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLING -
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
J. K. ROWLING -
Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
J. K. ROWLING -
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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






