Joanne “Jo” Rowling, OBE FRSL (b.1965,) best known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British novelist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series. The Potter 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 has become the highest-grossing film series in history. Rowling had overall approval on the scripts and maintained creative control by serving as a producer on the final instalment.
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It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
—J. K. Rowling
It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.
—J. K. Rowling
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
—J. K. Rowling
It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.
—J. K. Rowling
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish… but battle on.
—J. K. Rowling
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