Life is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
J. K. ROWLINGLife is too short. I only want to do things that I enjoy, or that I think are good or worth doing.
J. K. ROWLINGHappiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
J. K. ROWLINGYouth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
J. K. ROWLINGThe ones that love us never really leave us.
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.
J. K. ROWLINGWhy do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential.
J. K. ROWLINGPoverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.
J. K. ROWLINGYou care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.
J. K. ROWLINGFailure 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.
J. K. ROWLINGThe 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.
J. K. ROWLINGDon’t worry. You’re just as sane as I am.
J. K. ROWLINGAchievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
J. K. ROWLINGThere 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.
J. K. ROWLINGIt is impossible to manufacture or imitate love.
J. K. ROWLINGWherever I am, if I’ve got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
J. K. ROWLINGIf it’s a good book, anyone will read it. I’m totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.
J. K. ROWLING