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J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 54

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Always the tone of surpise.

Always the tone of surpise.

Tone, Hermione

"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1". www.imdb.com. 2010.

Your Great-Aunt Muriel doesn't agree, I just met her upstairs while she was giving Fleur the tiara. "She said 'Oh dear, is this the muggle born?' and then, 'Bad posture, skinny ankles.'" Don't take it personally, she's rude to everyone," said Ron. "Talking about Muriel?" inquired George, reemerging from the marquee with Fred. "Yeah, she's just told me my ears are lopsided. Old bat.

Aunt, Talking, Giving

Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

Running, Brides

Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.

Children, Father, Black And White

He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.

Glasses, Worry, Dining

I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind. “At these times, I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.

Memories, Focus, Feelings

Prongs rode again last night... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night... You found him inside yourself.

Father, Night, Way

You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil.

Toil, Loyal, Might

J. K. Rowling, “Sorting Hat's Song (Book 1)”

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

Men, Vindictive, Bigs

I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else.

Falling In Love, Writing, Ideas

I won't say 'never,' but I have no plans to write an eighth book.

Book, Writing, Plans

If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer.

Children, Book, Writing

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

Magic, Source

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

Children, Writing, Safe

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Daughter, Determination, Rocks

I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.

Notebook, Character, Names

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

Thinking, Monsters, Agoraphobia

Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are.

Exercise, Imagination, Wonder

J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.64, Hachette UK

I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.

Book, Answers, Clue

I was just sitting on the train, just staring out the window at some cows. It was not the most inspiring subject. When all of a sudden the idea of Harry just appeared in my mind's eye.

Eye, Science, Ideas

I was very low and I had to achieve something. Without the challenge, I would have gone stark raving mad.

Mad, Challenges, Gone

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Imagination, Humans, Human Capacity

Am I about to discover where you, Ron, and Hermione disappeared to while you were supposed to be in the back room of Fred and George's shop?" How did you...?" Harry, please. You're talking to the man who raised Fred and George.

Men, Talking, Rooms

Yeah, size is no guarantee of power,” said George. “Look at Ginny.” “What d’you mean?” said Harry. “You’ve never been on the receiving end of one of her Bat-Bogey Hexes, have you?

Mean, Receiving, Bats

Ron and Hermione were still smirking and Harry felt his temper rise; he wasn’t even sure why he was feeling so angry. “Don’t sit there grinning like you know better than I do, I was there, wasn’t I?” he said heatedly. “I know what went on, all right? And I didn’t get through any of that because I was brilliant at Defense Against the Dark Arts, I got through it all because — because help came at the right time, or because I guessed right — but I just blundered through it all, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing — STOP LAUGHING!

Art, Dark, Laughing

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