I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

— J. K. Rowling

I received free health care.

— J. K. Rowling

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

— 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

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

— J. K. Rowling

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

— J. K. Rowling

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

— J. K. Rowling

On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haiku, but my passion is story.

— J. K. Rowling

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.

— J. K. Rowling

Sometimes I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.

— J. K. Rowling