Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
J K Rowling quote Even though I have known it is coming for the past fifteen years, I have known that the series would end, I think it will still be a shock.
J K Rowling quote Obviously there will be a sense of achievement... I suppose there will be some benefits to not writing Harry Potter books any more. So it is about fifty-fifty really
J K Rowling quote This is not about money or anything other than the pleasure of reading for people who want to read it.
J K Rowling quote I find it upsetting and disquieting that some elements are so keen on spoilers because it seems such a mean spirited thing to do.
J K Rowling quote 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
J K Rowling quote I get asked a lot whether I would write another series, I don't know because the thing that interests me about Harry Potter was not the fact that it was a series, it was just the story and the subject matter, so I could do a one-off, could do a series, I don't know.
J K Rowling quote Mine [first memory] is my sister being born. My dad gave me Play-Doh. I don't remember the baby, but I remember eating the Play-Doh.
J K Rowling quote Biography
Creator of the Harry Potter books, an incredible rags to riches story as she is now worth over a billion dollars. Now that really is magic!
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