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Cue Card Answer:
How “successful” can a person become in life if he/she is too shy to even ask for a pen from anot
her
person? Well, the conventional wisdom suggests that he/she wouldn’t really go that far. But, with
Joanne K. Rowling, one should be wise enough not to rely too much on “conventional wisdom” as
she has pretty much defied all of it. In fact, the British novelist, screenwriter, film & television
producer and philanthropist, best known for writing the Harry Potter fantasy series, Joanne K.
Rowling is the ninth-best-selling fiction author of all time with an estimated 500 million of copies
sold so far. If I ever get a chance to meet a writer I admire, it would be her.
Having born in 1965 in
the United Kingdom, the 54-year old history-making author had an ambition
of becoming a writer from an age as early as 6 years. In fact,
at that age, she even wrote a book
about a “rabbit with measles”. Having learnt “French” and then
graduated from a university, J. K.
Rowling took different jobs in London, but her favourite job was working for Amnesty International,
a charity organization which campaigns against human rights abuses throughout the world.
But, it was in 1990 when one of the greatest fiction authors of all time conceived the idea of “Harry
Potter” which eventually was published in her book called “The Philosopher’s Stone” in mid 90’s.
Then, it was in the year of 1998 when the
Hollywood film-
making giant “Warner Brothers” secured
the film rights to the book by offering her a handsome seven-figure sum of money, did she become
the “author” J. K. Rowling as billions all over the world know her today.
Of course, many things had happened to this real-life tough character between
these years from the
death of her mother to a bitter divorce to surviving on state benefits. But nothing really moved her
from her goal of offering the world a “Harry Potter” movie, a name she
was really fond of from quite
an early age.
Apart from what I have already known about this great, great author, I would certainly love to gather
more by actually meeting her in person. In fact, if I ever
get a chance to meet her, I would ask what
was it exactly that inspired her to write the first book which made history. I would also like to know
why she had requested for all the actors/actresses to be British in the “Harry Potter” movie, as well
as why she preferred the movie to be filmed in Britain. Besides, there are always more to a person
than what our naked eyes can see on news and media. So, it definitely would be quite an honour to
meet a religious and “spiritually insecured” person like J. K. Rowling, who has
donated a large sum of
money to differ
ent charities, and tell her “thank you” as a token of appreciation for all of her
wonderful works.
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