Latest J. K. Rowling Quotes from Interviews

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• Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life Is Too Short, Thinking, Too Short

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I'd always said never say never, because I knew that Warner Brothers wanted to do something with "Fantastic Beasts," and I did have kind of a yen to do that.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Kind, Beast

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

• I think what is probably hard for people to imagine is how wrapped up the 17 years' work on Harry Potter is with what was going on in my life at the time. I was mourning the loss of this world that I had written for so long and loved so much. I was also mourning the retreat it had been from - from ordinary life, which it has been. And it forced me to look back at 17 years of my life and remember things.

  J. K. Rowling

  Loss, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

• You could tie my hands to my sides, I suppose, but I have to write. For my own mental health, I need to write.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Hands, Ties

• I've often met people who are terrified, you know, in a straight jacket of their own making because they'd rather do anything that fail. They don't want to try for fear of failing.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Trying, Want

• Love is the most powerful thing of all and I remember thinking that - God, I'm about to make myself cry but, I remember thinking that when 9/11 happened because those last phone calls were about - the last thing knowingly, that I'm going to say on this earth is "I love you". What's more powerful than that? What's more proof than that? Beyond fear, beyond death.

  J. K. Rowling

  Powerful, Love You, Love Is

• It's the ability to resist failure, in many ways, or use failure that often leads to the greatest success, isn't it?

  J. K. Rowling

  Use, Way, Ability

• Failure is so impor - it doesn't get spoken about enough. We speak about success all the time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Speak, Enough, About Success

• Love wins. It does win. We know it wins.

  J. K. Rowling

  Winning, Doe, Knows

• I don't drive. No. Cars terrify me. I am really frightened of cars.

  J. K. Rowling

  Car, Frightened

• That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Our World, People

• In magic, man has to rely on himself. So, in religion, of course, you're looking for outside support but that's the appeal of magic.

  J. K. Rowling

  Men, Support, Magic

• I'm very frustrated by fear of imagination. I don't think that's healthy.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Imagination, Healthy

• I forgot Dumbledore trashed Hogwarts, refused to resign and ran off to the forest to make speeches to angry trolls.

  J. K. Rowling

  Speech, Forests, Hogwarts

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2016

• I don't feel I owe my readers details of my family's private life.

  J. K. Rowling

  Details, My Family, Reader

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.

  J. K. Rowling

  Limits, My Family, Theme

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Honest

  Source: www.wbur.org

• Some readers and commentators really want to scrape your insides out to make sense of your work. Others say, there's the work, it speaks for itself. Personally, I fall somewhere in the middle.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, Want, Speak

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm a real sucker for guitars. I've had a crush on many, many a guitarist.

  J. K. Rowling

  Crush, Real, Guitar

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your life to an extent - of course, it brings marvelous things too, but it brings them mainly to the individual. The people around the famous person often pay a price without reaping many of the rewards.

  J. K. Rowling

  People, Looks, Pay

  Source: www.wbur.org

• The world is my oyster. I can do whatever I like.

  J. K. Rowling

  Oysters, World, Can Do

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• I'm a very distracted person.

  J. K. Rowling

  Distracted, Persons

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.

  J. K. Rowling

  Goodbye, Emotional, Done

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• Everyone wanted my emotions to be very simple. They wanted me to say, "I was poor and I was unhappy, and now I've got money and I'm really happy."

  J. K. Rowling

  Simple, Unhappy, Emotion

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

• There was no press involvement, there was no pressure. Life was very pure and it became more complicated.

  J. K. Rowling

  Pressure, Complicated, Involvement

  Source: www.nbcnews.com