“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
— J. K. Rowling
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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.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.”
— J. K. Rowling
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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.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“I received free health care.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.”
— J. K. Rowling
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