self-discovery Quotes

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.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

I think the next thing I publish will be for children, but I don't really want to be held to that because I also know what my next book for adults will be, and I really like that, too, so it depends. I've always had more than one thing going.

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.

And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I'm not based in Monaco... I think my country helped me.

The internet has been a boon and a curse for teenagers.