“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.” – J.K. “I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.” – J.K. “I really don’t believe in magic.” – J.K. “However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.” – J.K. “Bigotry is probably the thing I detest most.” – J.K. “You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” – J.K. “The first story I finished was when I was six years old.” – J.K. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.” – J.K. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. “Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. “Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.” – J.K. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” – J.K. “If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. “I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.” – J.K. “Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.” – J.K. “Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.” – J.K. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” – J.K. “Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” – J.K. “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.” – J.K. “Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.” – J.K. “Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” – J.K. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J.K. “If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.” – J.K. “I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever – was write novels.” – J.K. “I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.” – J.K. “Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” – J.K. Rowling Quotes That’ll Motivate Youĥ0 Powerful J.K. I just remember being happy.'" Quite apart from her literary success, the fact that Rowling was able to pull through during the early years and give her daughter an enriching childhood is a notable achievement. "Yes, I got off benefits and wrote the first four Harry Potter books as a single mother, but nothing makes me prouder than what Jessica told me recently about the first five years of her life. Rowling regularly shares her varied experiences with Gingerbread, and stated in a post on the website that she's most proud of her years as a single mother. It's a resource for single parents in the U.K., where they can receive advice on their personal situation, meet other single parents, receive training in order to gain better employment, and campaign for additional programs to support themselves and their children. These days, along with writing efforts, she supports the Gingerbread charity as its president. In Rowling's case, it's courage.Īs the most well-known children's author in modern memory, Rowling has not forgotten where she came from. "An exceptionally short marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless. The fears that my parents had had for me, and that I had had for myself, had both come to pass, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew." She then encouraged the graduating students not to fear failure no matter their circumstances, because it can reveal the qualities we value most in life. In her Harvard University Commencement Speech, she described the negative feelings she grappled with for so long before she experienced any success. Since achieving recognition for her work, Rowling has spoken about failure in very real terms. There are many unknowns with writing, and she wasn't equipped to handle the pressure. When Rowling was living in poverty, she felt like she was a failure. Like death, it's something that we don't have much control over. Failure is another topic people find difficult to talk about, and that's understandable.
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