“I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, while all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn’t know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
“Perhaps, if I had slowed down the ideas to capture them on paper, I might have stifled some of them (although sometimes I do wonder, idly, how much of what I imagined on that journey I had forgotten by the time I actually got my hands on a pen). I began to write ‘Philosopher’s Stone’ that very evening, although those first few pages bear no resemblance to anything in the finished book.”
JK Rowling
“It was 1990. My then boyfriend and I had decided to move up to Manchester together. After a weekend’s flat-hunting, I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head.”
JK Rowling
“I gave my hero a talent I’d love to have had. Who wouldn’t want to fly?”
JK Rowling
“I feel as though I know what he (Harry Potter) is doing now. He’ll always be a presence in my life, really.”
JK Rowling
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I built my life.”
JK Rowling
“I want to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.”
JK Rowling