Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
J.K. Rowling
Harvard University Commencement 2008, 2008
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Rowling described how, seven years after her own graduation, she had failed on an epic scale — a collapsed marriage, jobless, a single parent, as poor as possible in modern Britain without being homeless. She told the Harvard graduates she would not pretend failure was fun: it was a dark period with no fairy tale in sight. But failure freed her. With her greatest fear realized and nothing left to lose, she had an old typewriter and a big idea, and she channeled everything into writing Harry Potter.
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