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
Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.
The silence was unbearable to him. If the pictures could have reflected the feelings inside him, they would have been screaming in pain.
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
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
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. (Dumbledore)
My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer.