"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."
― J. K. Rowling
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Work
― J. K. Rowling
More From J. K. Rowling
- "Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain."
- "The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous."
- "I don’t read ‘chick lit,’ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill."
More In Work
- "No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry – to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave."― Knut Hamsun
- "Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction."― Anne Frank
- "Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week."― Louis Kronenberger