Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

—J. K. Rowling

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Joanne Rowling ( ROH-ling; born 31 July 1965), better known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author, philanthropist, producer and screenwriter. She is best known for writing Harry Potter, a seven-volume fantasy series about a young wizard and the best-selling book series in history, with over...

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Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than I was and began diverting all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

—J. K. Rowling

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

—J. K. Rowling

Men are born to succeed, not fail.

—J. K. Rowling

Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

—J. K. Rowling

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

—J. K. Rowling

More quotations tagged with “fame”

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

You can't choose what you're famous for in life.

—Dave Kellett

He who pursues fame at the risk of losing his self is not a scholar.

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.

—Benjamin Haydon

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

—Henry Kissinger

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