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J. K. Rowling Quotes

English - Author | July 31, 1965 -

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Truth Beautiful Great Caution Must

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

Worth You Never Ashamed Hold Some

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

Famous Being Would Like Writer Jane

I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

Form Any Fundamentalism Opposed

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

Start Thinking Enough You Possible

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

Feel You Say Casual Whatever Writer

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

Respect Job Me Self Loved Back

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

People World Kind Meet Defiance

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.

Parents Think Name Bathroom Hard

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

People Me Writing Year Know Citizen

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 haikus, but my passion is story.

Love Passion Poetry Story Person

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.

Imagination Parents College View Pay

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