Words Of Wisdom – J.K. Rowling
J.K Rowling has been flooding us with her words of wisdom for decades.
She is best known for her magical imagination which lead to creating the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter books have sold over 450 million copies.
The franchise itself is worth over $15 billion today. JK Rowlings donates a large percentage to the many charitable causes she works with.
It Wasn’t Easy
Things by no means fell into the lap of the determined dreamer. From her, we can learn many valuable lessons about the world.
She was rejected by twelve publishers while she was a single mother living on welfare she kept her eyes on her dreams, her pen in hand and her mind determined.
“I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do, ever, was to write novels.”
In The Beginning…
Rowling conceived the idea of Harry Potter in 1990 while sitting on a delayed train from Manchester to London King’s Cross. Over the next five years, she began to map out all seven books of the series.
She wrote mostly in longhand and gradually built up a mass of notes, many of which were scribbled on odd scraps of paper.
She would bring the first three chapters with her to Portugal where she went to teach English. After falling in love, becoming a mother and then separating she returned to England where she would continue writing.
No Turning Back
Rowling’s first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, was published. The children’s fantasy novel became an international hit. Rowling became an international literary sensation in 1999 when the first three instalments of Harry Potter took over the top three slots of The New York Times best-seller list after achieving similar success in her native United Kingdom.
The series has sold more than 450 million copies and was adapted into a blockbuster film franchise.
Today, the Harry Potter franchise has earned $15 billion and is a world-wide brand. Rowling has won many awards and prizes for the series and her other literary works. And above all, she has won billions of hearts.
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