J.K. Rowling Quotes - Harry Potter Quotations

I gave my hero a talent I`d love to have. Who wouldn`t want to fly?
J.K. Rowling

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

The consequences of our actions are so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. Rowling

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself.
J. K. Rowling

There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seek it.
J. K. Rowling

I had an American journalist say to me, "Is it true you wrote the whole of the first novel on napkins?" I was tempted to say, "On teabags, I used to save them."
J. K. Rowling

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.
J. K. Rowling






Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
J. K. Rowling

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. Rowling

Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.
J.K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
J. K. Rowling

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
J. K. Rowling

The spells are made up. I have met people who assure me, very seriously, that they are trying to do them, and I can assure them, just as seriously, that they don`t work.
J. K. Rowling

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. Rowling

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
J. K. Rowling

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
J.K. Rowling

Stephen King Quotes

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
Stephen King

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
Stephen King

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "one word at a time."
Stephen King






I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.
Stephen King

Nobody was really surprised when it happened, not really, not on the subconscious level where savage things grow.
Stephen King

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King

Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Stephen King


It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King



No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
Stephen King



Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
Stephen King

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
Stephen King

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
Stephen King

I work until beer o'clock.
Stephen King

Gustave Flaubert Quotes

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
Gustave Flaubert


Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Gustave Flaubert

A child of my own! Oh, no, no, no! Let my flesh perish with me, and let me not transmit to anyone the boredom and ignominiousness of life.
Gustave Flaubert

Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.
Gustave Flaubert

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

One mustn’t look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Gustave Flaubert