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
Don't let the muggles get you down.
It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.
I definitely know that love is the most powerful thing of all.
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.
You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.
I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing.
As Ginny and Hermione moved closer to the rest of the family, Harry had a clear view of the bodies lying next to Fred: Remus and Tonks, pale and still and peaceful-looking, apparently asleep beneath the dark, enchanted ceiling.
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.