Sometimes ideas just come to me. Other times I have to sweat and almost bleed to make ideas come. It's a mysterious process, but I hope I never find out exactly how it works. J. K. Rowling More Quotes by J. K. Rowling More Quotes From J. K. Rowling I don't think about who the audience is for my books. J. K. Rowling audience book thinking I don't think I am evangelical in my work. J. K. Rowling evangelical thinking I feel 80% of my life is completely normal. J. K. Rowling normal life-is feels I felt I had to solve everyone's problems. J. K. Rowling solve felt problem I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well. J. K. Rowling wells knows people I love a good Dorothy L. Sayers. J. K. Rowling I think that I've had a very strange life. J. K. Rowling strange thinking I'm not a natural joiner. J. K. Rowling natural 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 few-words writing mean Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it. J. K. Rowling doe littles thinking Everything that fails brings you closer to what works. J. K. Rowling failing If Harry Potter taught us anything, it's that no one should have to live in the closet J. K. Rowling potters taught-us should-have I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me J. K. Rowling writing book thinking This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it. J. K. Rowling reading want people Break not an ancient friendship; keep it hale; Stir round its roots, that it be green of heart; Let not the spirit of its growth depart: It is a power to brave the strongest gale. J. K. Rowling friends roots heart I don't believe in magic, either. J. K. Rowling dont-believe magic believe If you are writing children's books, you need to be a ruthless killer. J. K. Rowling writing book children words are our most inexhaustible source of magic. J. K. Rowling magic source I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe. J. K. Rowling safe writing children 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 to finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one area where I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter, and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J. K. Rowling rocks daughter determination
