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I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.

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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Robert Galbraith
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The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. . . . They were gone.
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I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
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I won't blast people out of my way just because they're there' said Harry. 'That's Voldemort's job.
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Yes, there are parallels. The difference is that I just look at [my son] David and think that he's absolutely perfect, whereas you look at the finished book and you think, 'Oh, damn it, I should have changed that.' You're never happy. Whereas with a baby, you're happy. If you've got a perfect baby, you're just grateful.
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I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just- Lily: Slipped out? It’s too late. I’ve made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends ... You’ve chosen your way, I’ve chosen mine.
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The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
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Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!
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We shall trespass upon your aunt and uncle's hospitality only a little longer.' You will, will you?' Yes,' said Dumbledore simply, 'I shall.
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I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
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He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.
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I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society.We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
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Dumbledore would have been happier than anybody to think that there was a little more love in the world.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.
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