“If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.”

“I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”

“Some of the books the Ministry’s confiscated — Dad’s told me — there was one that burned your eyes out. And everyone who read Sonnets of a Sorcerer spoke in limericks for the rest of their lives. And some old witch in Bath had a book that you could never stop reading! You just had to wander around with your nose in it, trying to do everything one-handed. And —”“All right, I’ve got the point,” said Harry.”

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

“I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”

“You have to resign yourself to the fact that you waste a lot of trees before you write anything you really like, and that's just the way it is. It's like learning an instrument, you've got to be prepared for hitting wrong notes occasionally, or quite a lot, cause I wrote an awful lot before I wrote anything I was really happy with. And read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.”

“I uprooted my daughter and left my job and moved house for you, and you treat me like a hooker you don’t have to pay.”