J.K. Rowling

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

"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!"

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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