Quotes by J. K. Rowling

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young."

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."

"Death is just life's next big adventure."

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."

"Failure means a stripping away of the inessential."

"I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

"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."

"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."

"Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates."

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."

"Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose."