Why do I
talk
about
the benefits
of failure?
Simply
because
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
