#InspiringQuotes: J.K. Rowling on "Failure"


Updated July 14, 2013 ● 204 views
#InspiringQuotes: J.K. Rowling on "Failure"

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, "The fringe benefits of failure", 2008

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