I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

More Quotes by J. K. Rowling

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.

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

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

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

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

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.