Best quotes from J. K. Rowling

Joanne Rowling, better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, screenwriter, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, which has won multiple awards and sold more than 500 million copies, becoming the best-selling book series in history. The books are the basis of a popular film series, over which Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and was a producer on the final films. She also writes crime fiction under the name Robert Galbraith.

Some of the best quotes from J. K. Rowling are listed below.

1. “Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement.” – J. K. Rowling
2. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” – J. K. Rowling
3. “As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.” – J. K. Rowling
4. “Curiosity is not a sin… But we should exercise caution with our curiosity.” – J. K. Rowling
5. “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” – J. K. Rowling
6. “Even if it isn’t the piece of work that finds an audience, it will teach you things you could have learned no other way.” – J. K. Rowling
7. “Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies.” – J. K. Rowling
8. “Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.” – J. K. Rowling
9. “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.” – J. K. Rowling
10. “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” – J. K. Rowling
11. “I believe in free will. Of those that, like us, are in a privileged situation at least. For you, for me: people who are living in western society, people who are not repressed, who are free. We can choose. The things go largely like you want them to go. You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful.” – J. K. Rowling
12. “I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.” – J. K. Rowling
13. “I don’t think there’s any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed.” – J. K. Rowling
14. “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
15. “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
16. “If Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that no one should live in a closet.” – J. K. Rowling
17. “If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it.” – J. K. Rowling
18. “If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; and if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless; and if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J. K. Rowling
19. “If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.” – J. K. Rowling
20. “If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J. K. Rowling
21. “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 that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared. Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J. K. Rowling
22. “Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J. K. Rowling
23. “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
24. “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.” – J. K. Rowling
25. “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” – J. K. Rowling
26. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” – J. K. Rowling
27. “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” – J. K. Rowling
28. “Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.” – J. K. Rowling
29. “Luck can only get you so far.” – J. K. Rowling
30. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation upon which I rebuilt my life.” – J. K. Rowling
31. “Sometimes, you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.” – J. K. Rowling
32. “The discipline involved in finishing a piece of creative work is something on which you can truly pride yourself.” – J. K. Rowling
33. “The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.” – J. K. Rowling
34. “The truth is always easier than a lie or an evasion – easier to deal with and easier to live with.” – J. K. Rowling
35. “The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.” – J. K. Rowling
36. “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.” – J. K. Rowling
37. “There is an expiration date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.” – J. K. Rowling
38. “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.” – J. K. Rowling
39. “We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.” – J. K. Rowling
40. “We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.” – J. K. Rowling
41. “We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same and worth saving.” – J. K. Rowling
42. “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.” – J. K. Rowling
43. “What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.” – J. K. Rowling
44. “Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best.” – J. K. Rowling
45. “When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.” – J. K. Rowling
46. “Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.” – J. K. Rowling
47. “You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. That’s just how it is. It’s like learning an instrument. You’ve got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That’s just part of the learning process. And read a lot. Reading a lot really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.” – J. K. Rowling
48. “You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J. K. Rowling
49. “You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.” – J. K. Rowling
50. “You’ve got to work. It’s about structure. It’s about discipline. It’s all these deadly things that your schoolteacher told you needed… You need it.” – J. K. Rowling