#rowling

It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#adult #anything #authors #because #before

Get up, you useless lump, get up! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #j-k-rowling #humor

The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness... ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#hard-times #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #life #negativity

Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #j-k-rowling #the-casual-vacancy #death

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’s Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house. . . . He might even have had brothers and sisters. . . . It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #love #death

It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel — past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #dreams

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

#j-k-rowling #writers #writing #writing-inspiration #funny

Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher. “What — what are you doing?” said Professor McGonagall, her eyes following the bouncing ferret’s progress through the air. “Teaching,” said Moody. “Teach — Moody, is that a student?” shrieked Professor McGonagall, the books spilling out of her arms. “Yep,” said Moody. “Moody, we never use Transfiguration as a punishment!” said Professor McGonagall weakly. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#goblet-of-fire #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #mcgonagall #moody

Harry witnessed Professor McGonagall walking right past Peeves who was determinedly loosening a crystal chandelier and could have sworn he heard her tell the poltergeist out of the corner of her mouth 'It unscrews the other way. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #mcgonagall #peeves #poltergeist #determination

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#future #hope #j-k-rowling #life #rebuild