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I just write what I wanted to ...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

I think you're working and lea...

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

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Talent and intelligence never ...

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

However my parents - both of w...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Imagination is not only the un...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Whether you come back by page ...

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

I would like to be remembered ...

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

The middle class is so funny, ...

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

No, there is literally nothing...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Death obsesses me, yes it does...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

The fame thing is interesting ...

The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

I received free health care....

I received free health care.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Poverty entails fear and stres...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

I was set free because my grea...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

I imagined being a famous writ...

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Why do I talk about the benefi...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

You lose your individuality a ...

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

It is impossible to live witho...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Every now and then I read a po...

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.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

Failure means a stripping away...

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Joanne Rowling 30 quotes

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