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

J. K. Rowling · Famous

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J. K. Rowling

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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J. K. Rowling

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Failure

J. K. Rowling

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.

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J. K. Rowling

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.

Failure