Quote by Joanne K. Rowling (about Magic)

Magic causes as much trouble as it cures.

Joanne K. Rowling in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Magic

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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

If you don't like to read you haven't found the right book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The dedication of this book is split seven ways: To Neil, to Jessica, to David, to Kenzie, to Di, to Anne, and to you, if you have stuck with Harry until the very end.

Joanne K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Book Dedications & Preambles

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Joanne K. Rowling

Imagination Magic

Sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Joanne K. Rowling - via Twitter, 05.09.2019

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Joanne K. Rowling

Writing

Once upon a time, there was a tiny country called Cornucopia, which had been ruled for centuries by a long line of fair-haired kings. The king at the time of which I write was called King Fred the Fearless. He'd announced the ‘Fearless’ bit himself, on the morning of his coronation, partly because it sounded nice with 'Fred', but also because he'd once managed to catch and kill a wasp all by himself, if you didn't count five footmen and the boot boy.

Joanne K. Rowling in The Ickabog

I do have a tendency to walk on the dark side sometimes. I have suffered from depression, I know how that feels, I have an innate inclination that way. Writing does help with that.

Joanne K. Rowling - September 2012

Writing Depression

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

Joanne K. Rowling

Failures & Mistakes Taking action Motivation

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

Joanne K. Rowling

Talent

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.

Joanne K. Rowling

Internet Teenagers

Ultimately, she had a bigger heart than she had a brain, and that's saying something for Hermione.

Joanne K. Rowling

A lot of people say that Slytherins and Gryffindors represent two sides of the same coin.

Joanne K. Rowling in Wizarding World

Gryffindor Slytherin

As we have developed the game of Quidditch, so it has developed us; Quidditch unites witches and wizards from all walks of life, bringing us together to share moments of exhilaration, triumph and (for those who support the Chudley Cannons) despair.

Joanne K. Rowling - Quidditch Through the Ages

Quidditch

But we're not bad people. We're like our emblem, the snake: sleek, powerful, and frequently misunderstood.

Joanne K. Rowling in Wizarding World

Slytherin Snakes

If you need to tell your readers something...there are only two characters that you can put it convincingly into their dialogue. One is Hermione, the other is Dumbledore. In both cases you accept, it's plausible that they have, well Dumbledore knows pretty much everything anyway, but that Hermione has read it somewhere.

Joanne K. Rowling

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.

Joanne K. Rowling

Failures & Mistakes

Ravenclaws are famous for clambering over each other to get good marks.

Joanne K. Rowling in Wizarding World

Ravenclaw

Activists in my mentions are trying to organise yet another boycott of my work, this time of the Harry Potter TV show. As forewarned is forearmed, I've taken the precaution of laying in a large stock of champagne.

Joanne K. Rowling - April 2023

HBO Max's commitment to preserving the integrity of my books is important to me, and I'm looking forward to being part of this new adaptation which will allow for a degree of depth and detail only afforded by a long form television series.

Joanne K. Rowling - April 2023, about HBO Max' Harry Potter series

Quotes about Harry Potter

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Albus Dumbledore in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Hurting

Powerful infatuations can be induced by the skilful potioneer, but never yet has anyone managed to create the truly unbreakable, eternal, unconditional attachment that alone can be called Love.

Joanne K. Rowling in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Clever as I am, I remain just as big a fool as anyone else.

Albus Dumbledore in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

Death comes for us all in the end.

Albus Dumbledore in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.

Joanne K. Rowling in The Tales of Beedle the Bard

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

Denahi in Brother Bear

Spring Change Magic

Magic blooms only in rare souls.

Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts - 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Magic

Speaking of eccentrics, you'll like our Head of house, Professor Filius Flitwick. People often underestimate him, because he's really tiny (we think he's part elf, but we've never been rude enough to ask) and he's got a squeaky voice, but he's the best and most knowledgeable Charms master alive in the world today. His office door is always open to any Ravenclaw with a problem, and if you're in a real state he'll get out these delicious little cupcakes he keeps in a tin in his desk drawer and make them do a little dance for you. In fact, it's worth pretending you're in a real state just to see them jive.

Joanne K. Rowling in Wizarding World - about Professor Flitwick

Filius Flitwick

My aim is to win the World Cup before I die.

Viktor Krum in Wizarding World - during the Quidditch World Cup 2014

Quidditch

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

Severus Snape in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers.

Remus Lupin in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Values

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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