J. K. Rowling Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy

  J. K. Rowling

  Happiness, Happy, Book

• If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspiring, Book, Reading

• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Funny, Believe

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Forever

• Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.

  J. K. Rowling

  Running, Book, Worry

• I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I never thought about writing for children - children's books chose me. I think if it is a good book anyone will read it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Writing

• One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.

  J. K. Rowling

  Family, Christmas, Book

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

• Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jobs, Believe, Book

• Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance.

  J. K. Rowling

  Believe, Book, Writing

• I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Persistence

• If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Book

• When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Parent, Limits

• You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Girl, Book, Writing

• Harry - you're a great wizard, you know." "I'm not as good as you," said Harry, very embarrassed, as she let go of him. "Me!" said Hermione. "Books! And cleverness! There are more important things - friendship and bravery and - oh Harry - be careful!

  J. K. Rowling

  Friendship, Letting Go, Book

• The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, People

• I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about the first book and it paralysed me. I was scared the second book wouldn't measure up, but I got through it!

  J. K. Rowling

  Block, Book, Writing

• Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wise, Witty, Baby

• Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Creative

• There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Book, Names

• Yes, it has made me happier. Finishing them has made me happier. Before I wrote the Potter books, I'd never finished a novel. I came close to finishing two.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Two

• During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on one book at a time, though occasionally I will get an idea for a future book and scribble it down for future reference.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Writing, Years

• I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

  J. K. Rowling

  Success, Children, Book

• The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Skulls, Mind

• What are you doing with all those books anyway?" Ron asked. Just trying to decide which ones to take with us," said Hermione. When we're looking for the Horcruxes." Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Hunting, Hands

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