J. K. Rowling Quotes - Page 25

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• Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.

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  Struggle, Writing, Long

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• If someone asked for my recipe for happiness, step one would be finding out what you love most in the world and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.

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  Motivation, Writing, Two

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• He put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

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  Healing, Hair, Wind

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• You fail by default when you live so cautiously you never fail.

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  Education, Literacy, Failing

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• There are always loose ends in real life.

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  Life, Real, Ends

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• 'You all righ'?' he said gruffly. 'Yeah,' said Harry. 'No, yeh're not,' said Hagrid. 'Of course yeh're not. But yeh will be.'

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  Life Lesson, Hagrid, Yeah

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• 'It was stupid, thinking it was him, I mean, I knew he was dead' Harry muttered. 'You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him....You know, Harry, in a way you did see your father last night....You found him inside yourself.'

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  Father, Life Lesson, Stupid

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• Long ago, when Harry had been left alone while the Dursley's went out to enjoy themselves, the hours of solitude had been a rare treat: Pausing only to sneak something tasty from the fridge, he had rushed upstairs to play on Dudley's computer, or put on the television and flicked through the channels to his heart's content. It gave him an odd empty feeling to remember those times; it was like remembering a younger brother whom he had lost.

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  Brother, Life Lesson, Heart

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• 'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'

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  Strong, Real, Life Lesson

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• The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.

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  Mean, Stronger, Ever After

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• Finding out what you’re good at, and doing it to the best of your ability, is the route to self-respect.

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  Self, Ability, Findings

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess at this point, what - what was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

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  Trying, Nerves, Determined

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• I had an old typewriter and a big idea.

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  Greatest Fear, Typewriters, Ideas

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'

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  Children, Book, Want

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• Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

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  Rocks, Foundation, Solid Foundation

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• Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

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  Real, Believe, Book

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• We touch other people's lives simply by existing.

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  People

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• Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

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  Jobs, Writing, Fighting

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• For some to love you, some must loathe you.

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  Love You, Loathe

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• I think you're working and learning until you die.

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  Thinking, Dies

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• If I wasn't a writer, I would be depressed.

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  Would Be, Ifs

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• Dementors caused a person to relive the worst moments of their life. What would spoiled, pampered, bullying Dudley have been forced to hear?

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  Bullying, Worst Moments, Mentor

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.34, Pottermore

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• Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy.

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  Real, Thinking, Space

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• I say there are spots that don't come off.... Spots that never come off, d'you know what I mean?

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  Mean, Potters, Spots

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• You place too much importance... on the so-called purity of blood! You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

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  Blood, Potters, Matter

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