Joanne “Jo” Rowling (born 31 July 1965), pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.
The Potter books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies.
They have become the best-selling book series in history,and been the basis for a series of films which has become the highest-grossing film series in history.
Rowling had overall approval on the scripts as well as maintaining creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.
Rowling has led a “rags to riches” life story, in which she progressed from living on state benefits to multi-millionaire status within five years.
TIME magazine named her as a runner-up for its 2007 Person of the Year, noting the social, moral, and political inspiration she has given her fans.
To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn’t mean we all have.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure.
We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
It is my belief… that the truth is generally preferable to lies.
What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.
I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.
Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all the other possibilities when you chose.
