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I am the freest author in the world.

J. K. Rowling

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J. K. Rowling
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 31
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Joanne Jo Murray
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!
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I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love reading. I would love to read, but I just don’t have time,’ I’m thinking, ‘How can you not have time?’ I read when I’m drying my hair. I read in the bath. I read when I’m sitting in the bathroom. Pretty much anywhere I can do the job one-handed, I read.
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I'm happy to talk in general themes, but when we get down to specifics about my family, for me that's always been off-limits.
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Merlin's pants! shrieked Hermione, jumping up and running from the room. Merlin's pants? repeated Ron, looking amused. She must be really upset.
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What do we want to be prefects for?” said George, looking revolted at the very idea. “It’d take all the fun out of life.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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We teachers are rather good at magic, you know.
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I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.
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One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic
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Yeah, we’ll call you,” muttered Ron as the knight disappeared, “If we ever need someone mental.
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Hallows, not Horcruxes.
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Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything.
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According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.
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I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.
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You don't have sex near unicorns. It's an ironclad rule. It's tacky.
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Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me, said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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Well, [bad] times like that bring out the best in some people and the worst in others.
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No, thanks, said Harry. The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick. Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
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