“'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.”
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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.
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.
If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.