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Joanne Rowling ( ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer, and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-volume series about a young wizard and the best-selling book series in history, with over 600 million copies sold. She also writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, under the alias Robert Galbraith.

Quotes from J. K. Rowling

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.

—J. K. Rowling

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

—J. K. Rowling

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

—J. K. Rowling

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

—J. K. Rowling

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

—J. K. Rowling

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

—J. K. Rowling

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

—J. K. Rowling

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

—J. K. Rowling

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

—J. K. Rowling

Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.

—J. K. Rowling

Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

—J. K. Rowling

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and, therefore, the foundation of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and relevetory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

—J. K. Rowling

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

—J. K. Rowling

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.

—J. K. Rowling

Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

—J. K. Rowling

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