JK Rowling says that making “such a mess of my life” spurred her on to write her first Harry Potter novel. The bestselling author, 55, was “insecure” and lacked self-belief when she put the story of the boy wizard to paper.
She tells Tracks Of My Years, for BBC Radio 2’s Ken Bruce show, what made her keep going. “You have to push through your lack of belief,” the multi-millionaire author said. “Certainly with Potter and with other things I’ve written, I’ve put them down for months at a time. “I have got better at believing that I can push through. “I remember when I was writing Potter I was writing two other things simultaneously and slowly but surely I realised that Potter was the best of them. “And even though I was very insecure I just
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