Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If … - J. K. Rowling

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I think I discovered my first, you know, my first image of a naked woman was sort of sneaking a peek at one of those magazines that was in my dad's store.

J. K. Rowling

Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective.

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To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever.

Deeply, Forever, Inspirational, Motivational, Person, Sympathy

He didn't realize that love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark.

Love, Mark, Mom, Mother, Powerful

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

Power, Powerful, Powerless, Reality, Voice

Get up, you useless lump, get up!

Get Up, Lump, Lumps, Useless

Read a lot. Reading really helps. Read anything you can get your hands on.

Hands, Read, Reading, Writing