J.K. Rowling

J.K. Rowling

"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."
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"What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
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"Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have essential and long overdue meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. 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. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg."
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"There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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"I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them."
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"What are you doing with all those books anyway? Ron asked, limping back to his bed. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us, said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes. Oh, of course, said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."
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"By the time she had interpreted Harry's dreams at the top of her voice (all of which, even the ones that involved eating porridge, apparently foretold a gruesome and early death), he was feeling much less sympathetic toward her."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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"One can never have enough socks, said Dumbledore. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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"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."
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"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation 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."
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"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."
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"I had a dream about a motorcycle, said Harry, remembering suddenly. It was flying. Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beet with a mustache: MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!Dudley and Piers sniggered. I know they don't, said Harry. It was only a dream."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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"According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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"It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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"“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”"
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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"Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched..."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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"Ah! Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans! I was unfortunate enough in my youth to come across a vomit-flavored one, and since then I’m afraid I’ve rather lost my liking for them — but I think I’ll be safe with a nice toffee, don’t you?He smiled and popped the golden-brown bean into his mouth. Alas! Ear wax!"
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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"It is impossible to manufacture or imitate love."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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"Sure you can manage that broom, Potter? said a cold, drawling voice. Draco Malfoy had arrived for a closer look, Crabbe and Goyle right behind him. Yeah, reckon so, said Harry casually. Got plenty of special features, hasn't it? said Malfoy, eyes glittering maliciously. Shame it doesn't come with a parachute - in case you get too near a Dementor. Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. Pity you can't attach an extra arm to yours, Malfoy, said Harry. Then it could catch the Snitch for you."
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
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"Who's Kreacher?The house-elf who lives here, said Ron. Nutter. Never met one like him. He is not a nutter, said Hermione. His life's ambition is to have his head cut off and stuck up on a plaque like his mother, said Ron. Is that normal, Hermione?"
J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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