More quotes by J.K. Rowling

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