She was in her mid-20s when the idea for the Harry Potter novels came to her, during a long train ride.

五岁时，在一次长途火车旅行中，她想到了撰写哈利波特这部小说的点子。

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J K Rowling received a mountain of rejection slips before finding a publisher for the Harry Potter novels.

JK罗琳在找到出版商发行小说《哈利·波特》前收到过成堆的拒绝信。

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She taught French and began writing the Harry Potter novels in earnest in her early years in Edinburgh.

在爱丁堡居住的早期，她教法语并且开始认真的著写哈利·波特小说。

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K. Rowling's website started selling digital and audiobook editions of all seven Harry Potter novels to English-language readers.

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Ms. Rowling kept the digital book rights to her Harry Potter novels and is expected to begin selling Harry Potter e-books on her website Pottermore later this year.

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