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“Probably considering Rowling is a lefty ex-welfare queen.”

If only all welfare queens would display her commitment to achieving self-sufficiency...

12 posted on 07/20/2009 8:13:24 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)

If only.

Or perhaps we should put more people on welfare in the hope that they become the next JK Rowling.

64 posted on 07/20/2009 10:46:26 AM PDT by aft_lizard (Barack Obama is Hugo Chavez's poodle.)

To: Buck W.; aft_lizard

Rowling was divorced and worked on the book part time while teaching English. She applied for a grant to the Scottish Arts Council to give her time to finish the first Harry Potter book, and used the grant to write full time until the book was finished. While waiting for the book to be purchased by a publisher, she returned to teaching English. Rowling is multi-lingual, and also taught French. She didn't give up teaching until Scholastic bought the US rights to the first Harry Potter book, which provided her with enough money to write full time.

She was hardly a welfare queen.

85 posted on 07/20/2009 8:40:52 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)

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