J. K. Rowling

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

“You'll stay with me?' Until the very end,' said James.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“He can run faster than Severus Snape confronted with shampoo.”

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like th...”

“There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”

“It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.”

“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”

“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.”

“We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”

“I hope you're pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed - or worse, expelled. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to bed.”

“Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.”

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

“Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.”

“Nothing like a nighttime stroll to give you ideas.”

“Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.”

“Death is just life's next big adventure.”

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.”

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

“Your mother died to save you. If there is one thing Voldemort cannot understand, it is love. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

“What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”

“Percy wouldn't notice a joke if it danced naked in front of him wearing one of Dobby's hats.”

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

“Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.”

“Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.”

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book.”

“Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.”

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.”

“And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.”

“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”

“Why are you worrying about YOU-KNOW-WHO, when you should be worrying about YOU-NO-POO? The constipation sensation that's gripping the nation!”

“I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.”

“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”

“I am the freest author in the world.”

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”

“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”

“He was my mum and dad's best friend. He's a convicted murderer, but he's broken out of wizard prison and he's on the run. He likes to keep in touch with me, though...keep up with my news...check if I'm happy...”

“Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head!”

“You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”

“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”

“Remember, if the time should come when you have to make a choice between what is right and what is easy, remember what happened to a boy who was good, and kind, and brave, because he strayed across the path of Lord Voldemort. Remember Cedric Diggory.”

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

“People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermi...”

“Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.”

“However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.”

“Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.”

“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.”

“I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.”

“In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.”

“Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.”

“If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

“On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.”

“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.”

“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.”

“I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.”

“Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.”

“The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.”