J. K. Rowling

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

J. K. Rowling

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

J. K. Rowling

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.

J. K. Rowling

Death comes for us all in the end.

J. K. Rowling

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

J. K. Rowling

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

J. K. Rowling

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

J. K. Rowling

I always felt an outsider.

J. K. Rowling