“I don't think I am evangelical in my work.”
Work
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
FailureAll Quotes by J. K. Rowling
“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Good“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.”
Knowledge“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Death“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.”
Business“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.”
Imagination“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Failure“The best of us must sometimes eat our words.”
Best“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might has well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
Failure“Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.”
Death“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.”
Failure“I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
Fear“I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.”
Famous“If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.”
Work“Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose.”
Poetry“Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.”
Intelligence“I think you're working and learning until you die.”
Learning“I received free health care.”
Health“The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.”
Famous“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.”
Imagination