Explore Quotes by J. K. Rowling

You could say sorry," suggested Harry bluntly. "What, and get attacked by another flock of canaries?" muttered Ron. "What did you have to imitate her for?" "She laughed at my mustache!" "So did I, it was the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

Mistletoe," said Luna dreamily, pointing at a large clump of white berries placed almost over Harry's head. He jumped out from under it. "Good thinking," said Luna seriously. "It's often infested with nargles.

I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.

Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!

I enjoyed the meetings, too. It was like having friends.

Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?

There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely honest. I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters, for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves we collude with it through our apathy.

You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.

We touch other people's lives simply by existing.

Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

In many, many ways... Hufflepuff is my favorite house.