By all means continue destroying my possessions. I daresay I have too many.
J. K. RowlingRead
Be ruthless about protecting writing days, i.e., do not cave in to endless requests to have "essential" and "long overdue" meetings on those days.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Value your time dedicated to writing and avoid distractions from meetings or requests.
J.K. Rowling emphasizes the importance of protecting your dedicated writing time from interruptions and distractions, such as meetings that may seem essential but ultimately detract from your focus and productivity. By prioritizing these 'writing days', one can nurture creativity and ensure that they remain committed to their craft without surrendering to external pressures.
Themes
WritingTime ManagementCreativityDedicationFocus
In practice
Example use cases
In a writing workshop to encourage participants to prioritize their craft.
More from J. K. Rowling
All quotes →Where are you heading, if you’ve got the choice?” James lifted an invisible sword. “‘Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart!’ Like my dad.” Snape made a small, disparaging noise. James turned on him. “Got a problem with that?” “No,” said Snape, though his slight sneer said otherwise. “If you’d rather be brawny than brainy —” “Where’re you hoping to go, seeing as you’re neither?” interjected Sirius.
J. K. RowlingRead
Depression isn't just being a bit sad. It's feeling nothing. It's not wanting to be alive anymore.
J. K. RowlingRead
I tell you, that dragon's the most horrible animal I've ever met, but the way Hagrid goes on about it, you'd think it was a fluffy little bunny rabbit.
J. K. RowlingRead
Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?
J. K. RowlingRead
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
J. K. RowlingRead
Similar quotes
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
B. F. SkinnerRead
Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
W. E. B. Du BoisRead
I believe that every child in this world needs to have a relationship with the land...to know how to nourish themselves...and to know how to connect with the community around them.
Alice WatersRead
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Read
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
John Henry NewmanRead