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J.K. Rowling
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“There are all kinds of courage. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
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“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
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“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
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“Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.”
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“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young ...”
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“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...”
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“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”
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“Is fat really the worst thing a human being can be? Is fat worse than vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, boring, evil, or cruel? Not to me.”
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“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.”
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“Numbing the pain will only make it worse when you finally feel it.”
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“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
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“If you don't like to read, you haven't found the right book.”
J.K. Rowling, English writer
(1965)
Real name: Joanne “Jo” Rowling. The “K” is borrowed since she had no middle name. She has also written as Robert Galbraith.