#age

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. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#backgrounds #been #both #came #college

I remember the first time I heard a teenager say 'LOL.' Just what? But it means 'laugh.' Why don't you just laugh? What are you doing? ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#first #first time #heard #i #i remember

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

— J. K. Rowling

#back #big #big screen #come #home

I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#journal #keep #longer #managed #never

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

— J. K. Rowling

#back #being #being a teenager #fact #give

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#cannot #feels #forget #guilty #how

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#die #poor #rich #wage #who

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#because #beginning #biggest #come #finding

The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free. ↗

— Gabrielle Roy

#free #his #judgement #keep #main

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since. ↗

— Rachel Roy

#ever #first #i #industry #job