J. K. Rowling Quotes

I don't like rules, because rules, you have to follow.

Rules equal boredom, and I don't like that.

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who's ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I don't like rules.

I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification.

Are you crazy? I don't want to wear ideas. I don't want to have all these complicated thing.

You know, you can only cram your beliefs down a young kid's throat for so long before he goes, "you know, the other side seems to be having a lot more fun."

Obedience keeps the rules. Love knows when to break them.

I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

I was seen in earlier years by family members and people of authority as somebody wasting his time. I had trouble with the restrictions of conformity. It made me edgy.

There couldn't be better parents than mine, loving yet strict. They disciplined with love. A child without discipline is, in away, a lost child. You cannot have freedom without discipline.

It's about living in a world with rules, or a world without rules.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

Everyone around me is so strict about keeping me grounded.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

In being strict, you were able to control.

I was a prefect at school, I never had a tattoo, got a detention or pierced my ears more than once.

Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work.

There were a lot of stop signs in my life... People telling you what to do, when to do it, and so on.

I follow the roles.