J. K. Rowling Quotes

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

Putting myself out there knowing I can be criticized - it's ironic, but to me, that's the most empowering thing.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

Once I turned 40, I stopped giving a rip about my detractors, the people who say nasty things. It's more candid and honest than it would have been. I share my failures, which is important.

People who are at the top have no problem being vulnerable and putting themselves in a position to fail. That's why they have the success that they have.

If I had to pick one quality that best predicts success (other than wanting to be successful) it would be the willingness to risk embarrassment.

When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

I'm not afraid to look bad on the screen.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

I had something I was trying to say and sometimes the message is an easy transmission and sometimes it's a difficult one but I love the power of saying it so I'm gonna do it whether it's hard or easy.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

I've never been afraid to fail.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I'm not afraid to take a swing and miss.

I think what I would say to my younger self, and probably to younger, just starting-out writers is that a lot of times you're just afraid to put yourself out there, and it's uncomfortable because it's working up the courage to do something, to push yourself to do those things.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.