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.
From J. K. Rowling
Death is just life's next big adventure.
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
There's no formula.
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.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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.
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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