Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
Author: J K Rowling
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.
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.
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.
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.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money and I certainly had that experience.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money and I certainly had that experience.
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.
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.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
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.
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.
To the well-organized mind death is but the next great adventure.
To the well-organized mind death is but the next great adventure.
Death is just life's next big adventure.
Death is just life's next big adventure.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.