
JK Rowling:
We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.
Proceeds to fund fascists
Ursula K. Le Guin :
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the knownothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.
(Apparently frequently misattributed to Tolkien. I love his writings but the man was not nearly as based as Ursula Le Guin)
I know this has energy, but I did try to look for a Rowling quote that wasn’t some uninspired one-liner that she unconsciously copied from some Disney movie
It’s alright but it’s definitely got more popular than literally all the other coming of age teen fictions through sheer luck. And I read a lot of these as a kid so I know what I’m talking about.
I’ve also heard that she was immensely helped by translation because when her shit was translated she was already starting to get famous, so the publishers contracted their best, and apparently the originals are a lot less “well written” than e.g the french version. I personally never bothered to check because I have more interesting things to read.
Fun fact about this one : when my librarian mom brought the first volume of Harry Potter home, I remember she told me that it must be good because she had never heard of the author (and she was specoalized in kids literature so she knew a thing or two about children and teens book authors) but she knew the translator