J.K. Rowling

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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!"

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

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

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