J. K. Rowling Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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 Hermione.

  J. K. Rowling

  Senior, Writing, Years

• Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, Kind

• I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

  J. K. Rowling

  Children, Writing, Young Friends

  "Of magic and single motherhood". Interview with Margaret Weir, www.salon.com. March 14, 1999.

• You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Character, Intense

• There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Writing

• 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.

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  Writing, Vocabulary, Giving

• Be ruthless about protecting writing days.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Mushrooms, Ruthless

• 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

• 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.

  J. K. Rowling

  Notebook, Writing, Ideas

• 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.

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  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

• I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing

• Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

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  Reading, Writing, Hands

• In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

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  Writing, Want, Audience

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

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  Girl, Book, Writing

• I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Writing, Popularity

• 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

• You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reading, Writing, Hands

• Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.

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  Writing, Brain, Cafes

• I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

• I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.

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  Writing, Plot, Outlining

• I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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  Writing, Want, Babysitter

• There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Writing, Movement, Vehicle

  "Rowling Draws On Personal Experience In 'Vacancy'". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 26, 2012.

• There is no part of me that feels that I represented myself as your children’s babysitter or their teacher. I was always, I think, completely honest. I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Children, Writing

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