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
It's going to be really emotional to say goodbye. I'm going to find it very difficult. But it must be done, it must be done.
I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!
There is no point in apportioning blame. What is done, is done.
You shouldn't have done that.
Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .
You don't know what I'm capable of, you don't know what I've done!
If she could have done one thing to make absolutely sure that every single person in this school will read your interview, it was banning it!
I knew I could do it all this time,” said Harry, “Because I'd already done it... does that make sense?
And all along the corridor the statues and suits of armor jumped down from their plinths, and from the echoing crashes from the floors above and below, Harry knew that their fellows throughout the castle had done the same.
We've been improving it. The badge now read Bighead Boy.
It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
I write every day, on some days 10 or eleven hours, but sometimes only three hours, it depends if I got enough ideas.
...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.