Jk Rowling Failure Quotes

#1. I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

Pat Conroy

#2. Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

Timothy Keller

#3. Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

John Keats

#4. Do soldiers feel this, when they get back from a war? The utter weirdness of utter normality.

David Mitchell

#5. I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

Kim Newman

#6. In fact, one could argue that the skill of the fiction writer boils down to the ability to exploit intensity.

James Scott Bell

#7. In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.

Abraham Verghese

#8. Extenuating Circumstances. That is me. That is Violet Markey. Poor forever-changed Violet and her Extenuating Circumstances.

Jennifer Niven

#9. All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist ... It's just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once that moment is gone it is gone forever.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. What is with these guys?
Where's the thrill in watching snakes eat?
I certainly didn't thrill in watching humans eat.

Patrick Jennings

#11. When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.

Jesse Kellerman

#12. The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Chester W. Nimitz

#13. I'm going to get drunk and insult as many musicians from the 80's as is humanly possible.

Noel Gallagher

#14. If you're playing someone who's got marital problems, you have to play someone who's trying not to have marital problems. So, you've got to get into the problem first.

Colin Firth

#15. I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Edith Sitwell