On my shelf this week:
Writer Mama: How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids, by Christina Katz
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination, by J.K. Rowling
The Dovekeepers, by Alice Hoffman
This week I’m looking into raising a writer career (I already know most of this, as a freelance journalist, but the reminder and intentional practices has been good), an inspirational speech-book by J.K. Rowling and a historical fiction book recommended to me by my librarian mom.
Best quotes so far:
“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. Had I really succeeded at anything else I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena where I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear has been realized, and I was still alive…”
J.K. Rowling.
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
J.K. Rowling
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
J.K. Rowling.
“The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.”
J.K. Rowling.
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation; in its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, ti is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
J.K. Rowling
“We do not need magic to transform our world; we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already; we have the power to imagine better.”
J.K. Rowling
Read any of these? Tell us what you thought.
