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. – J. K. Rowling
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. – J. K. Rowling
I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently. – J. K. Rowling
People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione. – J. K. Rowling
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I’ve come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun. – J. K. Rowling
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. – J. K. Rowling
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. – J. K. Rowling
There was a point where I really felt I had ‘penniless divorcee lone parent’ tattooed on my head. – J. K. Rowling
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. – 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 have failed by default. – J. K. Rowling
Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home. – J. K. Rowling
However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension. – J. K. Rowling
I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer. – J. K. Rowling
I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it? – J. K. Rowling
Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with. – J. K. Rowling
I don’t read ‘chick lit,’ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill. – J. K. Rowling
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. – J. K. Rowling
