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

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

Science is magic that works.

I don’t read books much.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

Most of my short stories are fantasy.

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author’s world.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don’t know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don’t know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

All good books have one thing in common – they are truer than if they had really happened.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

A properly balanced story provides an equal representation of the negative and positive attributes of, I could say the world, but it’s actually a being. ‚Harry Potter“s a good example. So Harry’s the hero, right. But he’s tainted with evil. There’s a dark and a light in every bit of that narrative. It’s well balanced.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

It’s very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I like writing. I get cranky when I can’t. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I should like to save the Shire, if I could – though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don’t have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don’t pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.