A biography for J. K. Rowlinghasn’t been written yet.
“The first story I finished was when I was six years old.”
“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.”
“I received free health care.”
“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“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.”
“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.”
“What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.”
“I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.”
“I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.”
“The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.”
“I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I'd written, I don't want to leave that behind.”
“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.”
“I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.”
“I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.”
“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
“I don't think about who the audience is for my books.”
“I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.”
“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”