JK Rowling has recently dished out details about writing her first popular Harry Potter book and creating a “phenomenon”.
“It’s all a bit of a blur, to be honest,” said the author in a new interview with The Sunday Times. Rowling recalled, “Winning the Smarties Book Prize (in 1997) was a massive moment, and then I got a record advance from America and everything went crazy”
Rowling revealed she took seven years to finish writing the first HP book and seeing it published.
“I kept losing hope and putting it away, but that happened less and less as I worked on it. At a certain point it, or I, caught fire, and I stopped doubting,” stated the author.
Rowling mentioned, “I can remember feeling elated after writing the first Quidditch match, which flowed out of the pen and was barely revised afterwards.”
