Is this true or false regarding the writer of harry potter books?

Question

that the author j.k. rowling wrote one of the books on napkins?

Answer 1

There's a kernal of truth there; when she first came up with the idea for Harry Potter, she was on a train, and didn't have any paper on her, so she wrote some ideas on a napkin, and came up with other details and stored them mentally. She then wrote everything down on paper when she got home, and began the book writing process.

Answer 2

Okay, J. K. Rowling came up with the idea for Harry Potter while on a train ride. She had NO paper or pens or anything like that at all. No napkins either. So she sat and thought about the story the entire ride.

If you find the "secret" things hidden on her website, you'll see coffee/tea stained papers that she scrawled random ideas on, this has probably fueled the idea that she wrote the stories on napkins.

Here is a quote from an interview with JKR:
Question: Do you still have the napkins that you wrote the first book on?
J.K. Rowling responds: I'm giggling...where did you read that? I didn't write on napkins; I wrote in notepads. We really need to squash this myth before people ask to see the used tea bags on which I drafted the first book!

On the website below you'll find the above quote about 3/4 of the way down the page.

Answer 3

She was on a delayed train when she came up with the idea, so she started writing it down on napkins. It wasn't the whole book, of course. Go to http://www.jkrowling.com/en/ , her official site, there's more information there. Or http://www.mugglenet.com/ , they know ALL about EVERYTHING to do with Harry Potter. I only know the books inside out.

Answer 4

Well, it's a reality in a haystack. She was on a train when she wrote it, so I guess she wrote it on napkins so she wouldn't forget all her ideas.
That's actually very interesting.