"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
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"You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.“
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"I don't think I am evangelical in my work."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain."
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