JK Rowling Shares Rejection Letters on Twitter

JK Rowling Shares Rejection Letters on Twitter
Author JK Rowling attends the World Premiere of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2 at Trafalgar Square in London, England, on July 7, 2011. (Ian Gavan/Getty Images)
3/25/2016
Updated:
4/8/2016

Writers, though filled with passion, must also be thick skinned and a little daring—if not outright brave. 

In a Twitter dialogue with fans and other authors, J.K. Rowling, of “Harry Potter” fame, said that she kept her first rejection letter on a wall in her home for motivation.

“Robert Galbraith” is one of Rowling’s pen names, under which she published the thriller “The Cuckcoo’s Calling. On choosing to write under a pseudonym, Rowling remarks that she desired “to work without hype or expectation and to receive totally unvarnished feedback“ for her venture into the crime mystery genre. 

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