I solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
J. K. ROWLINGSometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It’s a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works.
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If it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
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I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
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Depression is very different.
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Depression is deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel.
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Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don’t think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.
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Sometimes you have to stop trying to force it, walk away and let your subconscious show you the way. Fill up on life for a while.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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Don’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
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