J. K. Rowling
J. K. Rowling
Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE, FRSL, pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, screenwriter and film producer best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The books have gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards, and sold more than 400 million copies. They have become the best-selling book series in history and been the basis for a series of films which is the second highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth31 July 1965
CityYate, England
I had an old typewriter and a big idea.
Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.
What you fear most of all is —fear. Very wise...
Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion. Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.
I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
I write every day, on some days 10 or eleven hours, but sometimes only three hours, it depends if I got enough ideas.
Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.
>in divinationHarry: Wait, I've got two neptunes, that cant be right!Ron: >imitating professor trelwan