I find that discussing an idea out loud is often the way to kill it stone dead.
J. K. ROWLINGThere’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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First sign of madness, talking to your own head.
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Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
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Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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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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Imagination is the foundation of all invention and innovation.
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There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
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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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In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.
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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 was strange how your brain could know what your heart refused to accept.
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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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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp.
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It is our choices, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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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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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
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What’s the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal.
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If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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