I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. J. K. Rowling More Quotes by J. K. Rowling More Quotes From J. K. Rowling Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. J. K. Rowling silly love inspire Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. J. K. Rowling inspirational people thinking One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. J. K. Rowling greek reality people It was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept. J. K. Rowling strange brain heart Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. J. K. Rowling family home inspirational As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. I wish you all very good lives. J. K. Rowling what-matters positive life Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure. J. K. Rowling good-night life travel The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth. J. K. Rowling book people thinking October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces. J. K. Rowling rain winter morning I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever. J. K. Rowling forever book thinking The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution. J. K. Rowling literature truth beautiful Time is making fools of us again. J. K. Rowling fool time ... perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. J. K. Rowling harry-potter-movie potters silly Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. . . . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different. J. K. Rowling sad hurt depression Assuming I survive our hunt for the Horcruxes, I’ll find Mum and Dad and lift the enchantment. If I don’t – well, I think I’ve cast a good enough charm to keep them safe and happy. Wendell and Monica Wilkins don’t know that they’ve got a daughter, you see. J. K. Rowling dad daughter thinking Well I think it is often the case that the biggest bullies take what they know to be their own defects, as they see it, and they put them right on someone else and then they try and destroy the other and that's what Voldemort does. J. K. Rowling bully trying thinking there is plenty to be learned even from a bad teacher: what not to do, how not to be J. K. Rowling bad-teacher plenty teacher Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on. J. K. Rowling reading writing hands I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down! J. K. Rowling persistence writing book You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God. J. K. Rowling real life thinking
