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
You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our friends, but just as much to stand up to our enemies.
>in divinationHarry: Wait, I've got two neptunes, that cant be right!Ron: >imitating professor trelwan
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.
There's enough filth on my robes without you touching them.
Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit!
Things denied, things untold, things hidden and disguised.
A Dream is where a boy can swim in the deepest oceans and fly over the highest clouds.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.