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. ROWLINGThe internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.
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A good first impression can work wonders.
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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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We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
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I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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What’s most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
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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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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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Depression is very different.
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Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
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It is important to remember that we all have magic inside us.
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Death comes for us all in the end.
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There’s always room for a story that can transport people to another place.
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Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!
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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.
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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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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 solemnly swear that I am up to no good.
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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.
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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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Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book.
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You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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Wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure.
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I believe in hard work and luck, and that the first often leads to the second.
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