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 fail by default."

"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 mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!"

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already."

"The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."

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

"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me."

"Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!"

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure."

"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already."

"What's most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty."

"Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences."

"If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book."

"I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever."

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

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."