J. K. Rowling Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.”

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”

“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.”

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.”

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”

“I always felt an outsider.”

“I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.”

“What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.”

“When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.”