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.
J. K. ROWLINGI’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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I have never been remotely ashamed of having been depressed. Never. What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time and I am quite proud that I got out of that.
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The stories we love best do live in us forever.
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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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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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There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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