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. J. K. Rowling on work
The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words. J. K. Rowling on work
I don't think I am evangelical in my work. J. K. Rowling on work
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. J. K. Rowling on work