J K Rowling

J.K. Rowling went from being a jobless single mother living off unemployment benefits to one of the best selling authors of all time. But it didn’t happen overnight. She faced rejection and constantly strived for success. She worked hard at her craft before anyone noticed her.

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That practice, along with strengthening herself against rejection, was what made her work unforgettable. Looking back, the Harry Potter series has earned over $400 million in book sales, and the last movie alone earned $476 million dollars in ticket sales... on opening weekend. She was the first female to become a billionaire author, not that many authors make it that far in the first place.

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If you have a dream or a passion and you keep getting rejected or running into failure, don’t let that stop you. If you’re going through a tough time in your life, but working on something you really believe in, don’t give up. If you do, you’ll never know what could have been. Who knows, you might end up breaking records.

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After the birth of her daughter and separation from her husband, she went through a bout of depression and shifted to Scotland where she survived on welfare from the state.

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She would do most of her writing in small cafes across the city. Her first book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone" was rejected by twelve publishers before Bloomsbury accepted it, with the advice that she take a day job as children's books were not paying. The rest is History!