English - Author | July 31, 1965 -
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
J. K. Rowling
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It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
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I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
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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.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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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.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
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