Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
J. K. ROWLINGI solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
More J. K. Rowling Quotes
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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.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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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.
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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.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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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.
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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