“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
“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.”
WorkAll Quotes by J. K. Rowling
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
Failure“I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.”
Dreams“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
Fear“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“'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.”
Respect“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“I don't think I am evangelical in my 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“The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.”
Work“I think you're working and learning until you die.”
Learning“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
Death“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
Experience“Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.”
Good“Death is just life's next big adventure.”
Death“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”
Age“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
Great“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“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“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