Do you mean ter tell me," he growled at the Dursleys, "that this boyโthis boy!โknows nothin' abou'โabout ANYTHING?" Harry thought this was going a bit far. He had been to school, after all, and his marks weren't bad. I know some things," he said. "I can, you know, do math and stuff.
J. K. RowlingI've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
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