1,417 Quotes by J. K. Rowling

There's no formula.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty.

A good first impression can work wonders.

Never be ashamed There's some who will hold it against you, but they are not worth bothering with.

Fascinating creatures, phoenixes. They can carry immensely heavy loads, their tears have healing powers.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days, do not cave in to endless requests to have essential and long overdue meetings on those days.

Always the innocent are the first victims. So it has been for ages past, so it is now.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.