J. K. Rowling Quotes

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
J. K. Rowling

Writing, Brain, Strongly

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
J. K. Rowling

Money, Experience, Lose

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling

Thinking, Enough, Start

But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.
J. K. Rowling

Parent, Meet, Lone

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.
J. K. Rowling

Death, Understand, Why

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.
J. K. Rowling

Poetry, Read, Touch

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. Rowling

Failure, Away, Means

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
J. K. Rowling

Respect, Job, Self

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.
J. K. Rowling

Knowledge, Nothing, Rather

I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
J. K. Rowling

Write, Leave, While

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.
J. K. Rowling

I am the freest author in the world.
J. K. Rowling

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.
J. K. Rowling

Anyone, Convert

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.
J. K. Rowling

Respect, Live, Big

I don't need to publish to make a living.
J. K. Rowling

Living, Publish

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. Rowling

Science, Book, Give

I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
J. K. Rowling

Books, Audience

I don't think I am evangelical in my work.
J. K. Rowling

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.
J. K. Rowling

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.
J. K. Rowling

Problems, Everyone, Felt

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. Rowling

Famous, Writer, Austen

I just hate meetings.
J. K. Rowling

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.
J. K. Rowling

Public, Knew, Eye

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.
J. K. Rowling

I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers.
J. K. Rowling

Love, Good, Dorothy

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: July 31, 1965

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