Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLINGYouth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLINGI believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
J. K. ROWLINGRead a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
J. K. ROWLINGSometimes 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. ROWLINGIt was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
J. K. ROWLINGFirst sign of madness, talking to your own head.
J. K. ROWLINGWhen you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
J. K. ROWLINGThe world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.
J. K. ROWLINGImagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
J. K. ROWLINGPoverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. ROWLINGIn the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
J. K. ROWLINGIt is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. ROWLINGClimbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
J. K. ROWLINGAchievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
J. K. ROWLINGWe have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
J. K. ROWLINGThere 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