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 write every day, on some days 10 or eleven hours, but sometimes only three hours, it depends if I got enough ideas.
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
There is no good or evil: only power and those too weak to seak it.
>in DivintationLavender: >squealingProfessor Trelawny: That is Uranus my dear. Ron: Can I have a look at Ur anus too Lavender?
>in divinationHarry: Wait, I've got two neptunes, that cant be right!Ron: >imitating professor trelwan
Most important in a friendship? Tolerance and loyalty.
...someone might slip dragon dung in it again eh, Perce?" said Fred. "That was a sample of fertiliser from Norway!" said Percy, going very red in the face, "It was nothing personal!" "It was," Fred whispered to Harry, as they got up from the table. "We sent it.
There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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.
We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.
After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. (Dumbledore)