Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.J. K. Rowling
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.Simone de Beauvoir
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.J. K. Rowling
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.J. K. Rowling
When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.Simone de Beauvoir