I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book
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J.K. ROWLING I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
VICTORIA AVEYARD The Hobbit is based on an earlier, shorter book, written by legendary author J.K. Rowling. This make...
MIKE STOKLASA J.K. Rowling called in May to invite me to her house and interview her on the day of the new book's ...
EMERSON SPARTZ J.K. Rowling called in May to invite me to her house and interview her on the day of the new book's ...
EMERSON SPARTZ Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy."
[Har...
J.K. ROWLING Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe t...
NATALIE MASSENET I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' f...
LEV GROSSMAN 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared in...
GARY ROSS Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE I do believe that something magical, mystical and musical is going to happen for the four weeks betw...
GEORGE WEISS We had a script reading, and that's where we met J.K. Rowling, which was really exciting.
RUPERT GRINT By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J...
GARY OLDMAN Let us choose to believe something good can happen.
J. MARTIN KOHE Draco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (Ha...
J.K. ROWLING LDraco: "Hermione Granger, I’m being bossed around by Hermione Granger."
— J.K. Rowling (H...
J.K. ROWLING When you convert a good book to a film. stupid things happen
JESSE ANDREWS We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imaginat...
BARBARA MARCUS It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Row...
R. L. STINE Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ...
STEPHEN KING I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her im...
SHERYL SANDBERG In my defense, I love the book in a postmodern kind of way where I've always sensed that it contains...
CAROLINE KEPNES I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidenta...
HELEN MIRREN When I read 'Fantastic Beasts,' the world that J. K. Rowling has created is so wonderful.
EDDIE REDMAYNE I think I'll have complex feelings about [the last book], ... It's clearly the series that I will be...
ARTHUR LEVINE Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'H...
CASSANDRA CLARE I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I kn...
ALAN BALL I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...
RAY BRADBURY We've got to understand when we do get a turnover, you've got to either make something happen or hol...
CLEVE TOUCHBERRY There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the...
STEPHEN KING Even a book can be dangerous in the wrong hands, and when that happens, you blame the hands, but you...
ERIKA JOHANSEN The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story,...
CARLTON CUSE Something significant, magical, and
inspiring happens with each word you read in the pages of ...
MARTHA SWEENEY If you believe it can happen, it can happen. If you believe it can't happen, it won't.
KATHLEEN SINRAM When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at th...
TOM CONRAD I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav...
EDDIE CAMPBELL Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.
THOMAS SYDENHAM You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a...
PAUL SWEENEY Book work is something I can do without.
DICK KITTS Just give me a comfortable couch, a dog, a good book, and a woman. Then if you can get the dog to go...
GROUCHO MARX Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.
SHARON STONE Good fortune will knock on your door, if you believe it can happen to you.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, whic...
JACK HANDY You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lo...
PAUL SWEENEY A truly good book…teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down and commence living o...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I read everything. When I say everything, I read everything: children's literature, Y.A., scienc...
JESMYN WARD When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.
JAMES BURKE When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands.
JAMES BURKE Write a book,” he told me, “that I can give to my adult children to explain why I still believe ...
RONALD ROLHEISER There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produ...
IDA RENTOUL OUTHWAITE If you want life-long friendship and selfless camaraderie, join the army and learn to kill.
If ...
J.K. ROWLING If I have the option, I always read the paper or a book or something I can touch and destroy in my o...
AUBREY PLAZA I do hate surprises and regrets, that's why when I pick up a book, the first thing I do, I read the ...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't bel...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ...
DR. DAVID SCHWARTZ Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really
believe, your mind will find ...
DAVID SCHWARTZ Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ...
DAVID JOSEPH SCHWARTZ Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find ...
DAVID J. SCHWARTZ I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very po...
RACHEL MCADAMS I couldn't believe they were going to let us read something like that. At first, I didn't want to re...
CANDICE WILLIAMS These are stories you hear... of people sitting in a mall and being spotted, and you think it will h...
NIMRAT KAUR If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
ARSENE WENGER If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book...
BEVERLY CLEARY The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Littl...
PAUL BLOOM When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR How to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone"? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps a...
HAROLD BLOOM Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read....
GABRIELLE ZEVIN I expected something to happen. I think he's hurt. You can almost hear it when he speaks.
ED FARMER The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Early on, (Rowling) created characters you can relate to.
DAVE LAMBERT When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you tha...
CLIFTON FADIMAN When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in YOU th...
CLIFTON FADIMAN I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,...
BOBBY ORR I'm flattered to be compared to (J.K.) Rowling because I think she's done an incredible amount for r...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI When you know you can do something, and you feel good about yourself, you do not have to devalue oth...
JOHN PATRICK HICKEY I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...
ELIZABETH PETERS Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you ...
CLIFTON FADIMAN There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside ...
GAIL CARSON LEVINE When you don't know anything about it and read a section of this book, you think, 'wow, I didn't kno...
BOB HILDERBRAND I can read the Tarot cards and believe in ghosts.
MARK ROBERTS As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ...
TODD BURPO The way a book is read - which is to say, the qualities a reader brings to a book - can have as much...
NORMAN COUSINS It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Believe; it can happen to you.
SCOTTIE SOMERS It is one little thing you can do to make something big happen.
KRYSTAL WILSON The secret to life's magical breakthroughs are nothing magical,but they only happen when people dare...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth read...
SUSAN SONTAG There is something magical that happens when you get brilliant minds and unconventional thinkers in ...
JAYSON GAIGNARD I truly believe in positive synergy, that your positive mindset gives you a more hopeful outlook, an...
RUSSELL WILSON Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good inten...
RACHEL PLATTEN When you already believe something, how can you suddenly stop? When you are a loyal friend, how can ...
AMY TAN I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
TRUMAN CAPOTE Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ... When something holds good for two thousand years I do...
BERNARD M. BARUCH
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J.K. ROWLING Loony, Loopy Lupin.
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Snape looked as...
J.K. ROWLING First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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At this, Myrtle's eyes filled...
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J.K. ROWLING You all righ'?"
"Yeah,"
"No yeh're not... 'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be.
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J.K. ROWLING Death,
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J.K. ROWLING Kill the spare.
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J.K. ROWLING Harry -
I'm flying north immediately. This news about your scar is the latest in a series of st...
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J.K. ROWLING The words came out before Harry had quite got his tongue around them.
“Wangoballwime?”
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J.K. ROWLING Giggling should be made illegal.
J.K. ROWLING OH NO YOU DON’T, LADDIE!”
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J.K. ROWLING Bubotubers,” Professor Sprout told them briskly. “They need squeezing. You will collect the pus ...
J.K. ROWLING Wow!” said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being ...
J.K. ROWLING Half an hour later, each of them had been given a complicated circular chart, and was attempting to ...
J.K. ROWLING We must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy. ~Albus Dumbledore
J.K. ROWLING I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everythin...
J.K. ROWLING Completely forgetting about dinner, he walked slowly back up to Gryffindor tower. Cho's voice echoin...
J.K. ROWLING She’s a veela!” he said hoarsely to Harry.
“Of course she isn’t!” said Hermion...
J.K. ROWLING I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I wa...
J.K. ROWLING He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here lik...
J.K. ROWLING You know your mother, Malfoy?” said Harry “That expression she’s got, like she’s got ...
J.K. ROWLING I hate being poor.
J.K. ROWLING As Hagrid had said, what would come would come and he would have to meet it when it did.
J.K. ROWLING Enjoying it? I don’t reckon he’d come home if Dad didn’t make him. He’s obsessed. Just don�...
J.K. ROWLING Play to your strengths."
"I haven’t got any," said Harry, before he could stop himself....
J.K. ROWLING Oh you is a bad elf, Dobby!
J.K. ROWLING No, I'm fine,' said Harry, wondering why he kept telling people this, and wondering whether he had e...
J.K. ROWLING She can't keep writing about what a tragic little hero I am, it'll get boring.
J.K. ROWLING You’re JOKING!” said Fred Weasley loudly.
The tension that had filled the Hall ever since M...
J.K. ROWLING Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye.
J.K. ROWLING Oh, shut up Weatherby.
J.K. ROWLING Hello, Professor McGonagall,” said Moody calmly, bouncing the ferret still higher.
“What �...
J.K. ROWLING He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "...
J.K. ROWLING Harry, Cedric, I suggest you both go up to bed," said Dumbledore, smiling at both of them. "I am sur...
J.K. ROWLING Muggle women wear them, Archie, not the men, they wear these,' said the Ministry wizard, and he bran...
J.K. ROWLING Really Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin...
J.K. ROWLING Well, I’m sure you’ll find someone somewhere who’ll have you.
J.K. ROWLING Of course we still want to know you!" Harry said, staring at Hagrid.
"You don't think anything ...
J.K. ROWLING Aaah ... when two Neptunes appear in the sky it is a sure sign that a midget in glasses is being bor...
J.K. ROWLING Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick h...
J.K. ROWLING She should've interviewed Snape," said Harry grimly. "He'd give her the goods on me any day. "Pot...
J.K. ROWLING But Ron was staring at Hermione as though suddenly seeing her in a whole new light.
“Hermione...
J.K. ROWLING I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memor...
J.K. ROWLING Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
J.K. ROWLING I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.
J.K. ROWLING You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!
J.K. ROWLING I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing... maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the sh...
J.K. ROWLING We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D...
J.K. ROWLING Well, you can't break an Unbreakable Vow...."
"I'd worked that much out for myself, funnily eno...
J.K. ROWLING Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and wha...
J.K. ROWLING I love magic!
J.K. ROWLING Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves it's own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even t...
J.K. ROWLING He wished he could rip out his heart, his innards, everything that was screaming inside him...
J.K. ROWLING Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a so...
J.K. ROWLING Wandering around at midnight, Ickle Firsties? Tut, tut, tut. Naughty, naughty, you'll get caughty.
J.K. ROWLING Shooting stars all over Britain? Owls flying by daylight? Mysterious people in cloaks all over the p...
J.K. ROWLING Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Un...
J.K. ROWLING Why do you live?
Because I have something worth living for.
J.K. ROWLING I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still receive a very great deal of fan mail.
. . . Gladys G...
J.K. ROWLING Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Ver...
J.K. ROWLING Can I have a look at Uranus too, Lavender?
J.K. ROWLING