J. K. Rowling

It is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

J. K. Rowling

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

J. K. Rowling

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

J. K. Rowling

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

J. K. Rowling

Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.

J. K. Rowling

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you’ll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that’s fine because that’s a learning experience too.

J. K. Rowling

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

J. K. Rowling

Sometimes 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. Rowling