Death is just life's next big adventure.

— J. K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

— J. K. Rowling

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

— J. K. Rowling

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.

— J. K. Rowling

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

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

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

— J. K. Rowling

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

— 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.

— J. K. Rowling

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