"Harry Potter author: I was humiliated by Poverty,"
Ananova, 20 May 2002
JK Rowling says she found it humiliating being poor. She says her image as a struggling writer before her Harry Potter success has been wrongly romanticised. Rowling is backing a new collection of short stories aimed at raising money for single parent families.
"Some articles written about me have come close to romanticising the time I spent on Income Support," she told the Daily Mirror. "The well-worn cliche of the writer starving in the garret is so much more picturesque than the bitter reality of living in poverty with a child."