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The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

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 to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

J. K. Rowling

I really don't believe in magic.

J. K. Rowling

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

J. K. Rowling

Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

J. K. Rowling

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

J. K. Rowling

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.

J. K. Rowling

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

J. K. Rowling

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

J. K. Rowling

There's no formula.

J. K. Rowling

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

J. K. Rowling

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.

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I've laid my friends bare.

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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

J. K. Rowling

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.

J. K. Rowling

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.

J. K. Rowling

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

J. K. Rowling

Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.

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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.

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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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

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I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

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I'm not a natural joiner.

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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

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

J. K. Rowling

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

J. K. Rowling

Death is just life's next big adventure.

J. K. Rowling

With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

J. K. Rowling

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

J. K. Rowling

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling