J. K. Rowling

What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

I think you're working and learning until you die.

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

Death is just life's next big adventure.

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

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.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.