Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it.
J. K. ROWLINGWhat’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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Sometimes 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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Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing.
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Depression is the absence of hope.
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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
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Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.
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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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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
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You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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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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Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
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You must accept the reality of other people.
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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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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Time is making fools of us again.
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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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Do not pity the dead. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love.
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You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
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