"Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that [Harry Potter author] Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and [Twilight author] Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
— Stephen King

"Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn, sting, and bite all at once?"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

"Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days. The funny thing is that, although writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it. Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing that they pop up like mushrooms without my connivance. I must therefore guard the time allotted to writing as a Hungarian Horntail guards its firstborn egg."
— J.K. Rowling

""Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.""
— J.K. Rowling

"What happened down in the dungeon between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret. So, naturally, the whole school knows."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"Get up, you useless lump, get up!"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)

"'Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me,' said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. "
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

""Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!" "
— J.K Rowling Dumbledore

""Ghosts are transparent""
— Harry Potter

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
— Dumbledore

"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
— Albus Dumbledore

"I am not forgotten, you know, no, I still recieve a very great deal of fan mail... Gladys Gudegeon writes weekly... I just wish I knew why... I suspect it is simply my good looks."
-Gilderoy Lockehart
"
— J.K. Rowling

""It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.""
— Dumbledore

""What ever are you doing up so late Potter?""
— Serverus Snape