130+ Inspiring JK Rowling Quotes for Daily Booster

JK Rowling Famous Quotes

This JK Rowling quotes below are famous, so you might have ever heard them before.

• “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

• “We do not need magic to change the world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: We have the power to imagine better.”

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

• “We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.”

• “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

• “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

• “Whatever you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

• “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

• “Anything is possible if you’ve got enough nerve.”

• “Sometimes, you have to stop trying to force it, walk away, and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.”

• “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 fail by default.”

• “To the well-organized mind, death is  but the next great adventure.”

• “Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success.”

• “No story lives unless someone wants to listen.”

• “The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.”

• “The stories we love best live in us forever.”

• “It’s important to remember that we all have magic inside us.”

• “As is a tale, so is life. Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

• "I don’t think there’s any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is a very destructive thing indeed."

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

• "Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools."

• "I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."

• "I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently."

• "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."

JK Rowling Quotes About Writing

As a writer, here are some JK Rowling quotes about writing that will acknowledge you.

• "Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it."

• "I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there."

• "You have to resign yourself to wasting lots of trees before you write anything really good. That's just how it is. It's like learning an instrument. You've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot. That's just part of the learning process. And read a lot. Reading a lot really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on."

• "There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place."

• “I've no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out; it would spoil the excitement for me if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.”

• "The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary."

• “My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.”

• "Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on."

• “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.”

• "I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it."

• “I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!”

• "And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss."

• “Sometimes the ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. I like a mystery, as you may have noticed.”

• "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."

• “Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.”

• "I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!"

• “I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children―children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.”

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

• “My youngest child asked me the other day, ‘Mummy, if you had to choose between us and writing, what would you choose?’ And I said, ‘Well I would choose you but I would be very, very grumpy.'”

• "In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write."

• "All a writer needs is talent and ink."

• "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."

• “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.”

• "You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on."

• “I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, ‘Ah, no, that’s disgusting.’ And I said, ‘Well, I hadn’t used the sick bag.’”

• "Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain."

• "Write what you know: your own interests, feelings, beliefs, friends, family and even pets will be your raw materials when you start writing. Develop a fondness for solitude if you can, because writing is one of the loneliest professions in the world!"

• "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."

• "I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write."

• "I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write."

• “Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better."

• "There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing."

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

JK Rowling Inspirational Quotes

Looking for the inspirational ones? Here is some JK Rowling quotes to inspire you.

• "Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success."

• "Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes."

• "The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them."

• "We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy."

• "Whatever money you might have, self-worth really lies in finding out what you do best."

• "I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that."

• "You control your own life. Your own will is extremely powerful."

• "You’ve got to work. It’s about structure. It’s about discipline. It’s all these deadly things that your schoolteacher told you you needed… You need it."

• "We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving."

• "Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love."

• "The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive."

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

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

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

• "Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be."

• "Are you the sort of person who gloats when they see a woman fall, or the kind that celebrates a magnificent recovery?"

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

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

• "Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself."

• "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain."

• "There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other."

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

• "It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more."

• "Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect."

• "The best of us must sometimes eat our words."

• "I think you're working and learning until you die."

• "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."

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

• "I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud."

• "If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time."

JK Rowling Harry Potter Quotes

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Let's take a look at some JK Rowling quotes from Harry Potter novels, her masterpiece.

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

• “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

• “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

• “Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

• “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”

• “Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”

• “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
  "After all this time?"
  "Always," said Snape.”
  

• “Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?"
  "Yes," said Harry stiffly.
  "Yes, sir."
  "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor."
  The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying.”
  

• “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

• “Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

• “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

• “Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

• “We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

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

• “He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

• “Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business.
  Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git.
  Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor.
  Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.”
  

• “Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?"
  "Yes."
  "You called her a liar?"
  "Yes."
  "You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?"
  "Yes."
  "Have a biscuit, Potter.”
  

• “Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.
  "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...”
  

• “You're a prefect? Oh Ronnie! That's everyone in the family!"
  "What are Fred and I? Next door neighbors?”
  

• “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
  "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
  

• “It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

• “Not my daughter, you bitch!”

• “Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”

• “Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

So, have you been inspired by all JK Rowling quotes above? From these quotes, you know that people like JK Rowling can achieve their greatness because they never give up and don't feel afraid to make mistakes, even for years.

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