Quotes by J. K. Rowling

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. [...] It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened fee...”

“During the day I was writing in cafés as everyone famously knows, but could I just say for the record once and for all 'cause it's really irritating me: I did not write in cafés to escape my unheat...”

“I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding What is today's message? And I do think that, although I never, ...”

“If you need to tell your readers something … there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, ...”

“I've given you more than I've given anyone else which I probably shouldn't probably say on — on screen, or they'll kidnap and torture him, and we need him.”

“[Before her success] I totally felt a waste of space. I was lousy. Yes I did, yes. And now I feel that, it turns out there was one thing I was good at, and I'd always expected I could tell a story,...”

“He [Harry] is very much in puberty [...] I just think it is a very confusing time. Yes, he's very confused in a boy way. He doesn’t understand how girls' minds work. [...] Harry, for the first time...”

“I went to the British Book Awards that evening. I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you...”

“Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kin...”

“Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places. Of course, this is a power, like my bran...”

“One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author P...”

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”

“I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime would think of Nazi Germany. … I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the Wizarding world. So you ha...”

“No story lives unless someone wants to listen.The stories we love best do live in us forever. So, whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

“The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

“The Internet doesn’t just offer opportunities for misogynistic abuse, you know. Penis enlargers can also be bought discreetly.”

“How horrible. Voldemort was nowhere near as bad.”

“I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione 'turned white' – that is, lost colour from her face after a shock – that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty...”

“I don't think I've ever wanted magic more.”

“If I try harder I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.”