Category: J.K. Rowling

I don’t think I am evangelical in my 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.

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.

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.