Actually finishing it was the most remarkable feeling I've ever had... [I felt] euphoria, devastated... I was in a hotel room on my own, sobbing my сердце out. I downed half a bottle of champagne in one and went Главная with mascara all over my face.
J. K. Rowling
On finishing her seventh and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.
I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became еще and еще real to me.
J. K. Rowling
How the Harry Potter tale came to her during a delayed train journey.
Письмо for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have
made me do it, или prevented me from doing it.
J. K. Rowling
Probably the very best thing my earnings have дана me is absense of worry. I have not forgotten what it feels like to worry whether you'll have enough to pay the bills. Not to have to think about that any еще is the biggest luxury in the world.
J. K. Rowling
If you've literally been worrying, "Will the money last until the end of the week?" Ты will never, ever complain about having money.
J. K. Rowling
I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these Книги was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's Книги don't even get reviewed.
J. K. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being Jane Austen, being able to sit at Главная in the parsonage and your Книги would be very famous.
J. K. Rowling
I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the пляж, пляжный through long lenses.
J. K. Rowling
On how she felt besieged by the press.
J. K. Rowling
On finishing her seventh and last Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows.
I sat and thought for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became еще and еще real to me.
J. K. Rowling
How the Harry Potter tale came to her during a delayed train journey.
Письмо for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have
made me do it, или prevented me from doing it.
J. K. Rowling
Probably the very best thing my earnings have дана me is absense of worry. I have not forgotten what it feels like to worry whether you'll have enough to pay the bills. Not to have to think about that any еще is the biggest luxury in the world.
J. K. Rowling
If you've literally been worrying, "Will the money last until the end of the week?" Ты will never, ever complain about having money.
J. K. Rowling
I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these Книги was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's Книги don't even get reviewed.
J. K. Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being Jane Austen, being able to sit at Главная in the parsonage and your Книги would be very famous.
J. K. Rowling
I didn't think they'd rake through my bins, I didn't expect to be photographed on the пляж, пляжный through long lenses.
J. K. Rowling
On how she felt besieged by the press.
In these articles, I'll be taking Ты back in time, to when the Фильмы began. I'll Показать Ты how they did it and why.
First up, a quick look at the immaturity of a twelve-year-old boy.
The following is a direct quote.
"We did a lot of pranks. Once Daniel Radcliffe brought in a remote-controlled whoopee cushion. He tried it on me, but it didn't quite work. Then he tried it on someone else who was going to sit down on a massive sofa. When it went off, Chris Columbus said, 'Cut! What is that thing?' and everyone burst into laughter. Dan pulled other pranks too--like making little labels that сказал(-а) 'Kick me' или 'Punch me.' He would stick them on the backs of everyone who came into sight. It was really good."
Emma Watson, 2002
Classic. Who knew that people still fall for the "Kick me" signs? I sure didn't. I'm a bit scared to think of the pranks pulled in the later years.
First up, a quick look at the immaturity of a twelve-year-old boy.
The following is a direct quote.
"We did a lot of pranks. Once Daniel Radcliffe brought in a remote-controlled whoopee cushion. He tried it on me, but it didn't quite work. Then he tried it on someone else who was going to sit down on a massive sofa. When it went off, Chris Columbus said, 'Cut! What is that thing?' and everyone burst into laughter. Dan pulled other pranks too--like making little labels that сказал(-а) 'Kick me' или 'Punch me.' He would stick them on the backs of everyone who came into sight. It was really good."
Emma Watson, 2002
Classic. Who knew that people still fall for the "Kick me" signs? I sure didn't. I'm a bit scared to think of the pranks pulled in the later years.
Cornelius Fudge, the Minister for Magic, denied that he had any plans to take over the running of the Wizarding Bank, Gringotts, when he was elected Minister for Magic five years ago. помадка, выдумка has always insisted that he wants nothing еще than to "cooperate peacefully" with the guardians of our gold.
BUT DOES HE?
Sources close to the Minister have recently disclosed that Fudge's dearest ambition is to seize control of the goblin Золото supplies and that he will not hesitate to use force if need be.
"It wouldn't be the first time, either," сказал(-а) a Ministry insider. "Cornelius 'Goblin-Crusher' Fudge, that's what his Друзья call him, if Ты could hear him when he thinks no one's listening, oh, he's always talking about the goblins and he's had done in; he's had them drowned, he's had them dropped off buildings, he's had them poisoned, he's had them cooked in pies...."