J. K. Rowling Quotes

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FAMOUS WOMEN AND BEAUTY FEATURING: J. K. Rowling Quotes Born 31 July 1965 Joanne Kathleen Rowling, writer

"I think failure is so important. I’ve been fortunate to meet extraordinary people and not one of them didn’t have their failure. It’s the ability to resist failure or use it that often leads to success. Rock bottom wasn’t fun at all, but it was liberating. What did I have to lose?"

"When you dream, you can do what you like."

"The mere fact of being able to say I was a published author was the fulfillment of a dream I’ve had since I was a very young child."

"I get bored with my life. I prefer inventing things."

"I was happier as an impoverished and unpublished writer than I have ever been as a solvent and mediocre executive."

"I write anytime, anyplace, and in longhand."

"I can remember being a kid and being very powerless and having this whole underworld that to adults is always going to be impenetrable. I think that I have very vivid memories of how it felt to be Harry’s age."

"From the moment I had the idea for the book, I could see a lot of comic potential in the idea that wizards walk among us."

"All I ever wanted was for somebody to publish Harry so I could go to bookshops and see it."

"I was not the most secure person. I was someone with not much self belief and yet I felt, "I can tell a story."

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