Casual Vacancy Quotes

#1. The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. Then she thought bitterly that it would be much easier to resist chocolate if her life were less stressful.

J.K. Rowling

#3. If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

Douglas Self

#4. Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

J.K. Rowling

#5. Would the realization of Sukhvinder's desperation lead, at last, to some crack in her mother's implacable disapproval, her disappointment, her endless stone-faced criticism?

J.K. Rowling

#6. What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.

Lev Grossman

#7. Fats and Andrew were perhaps equally aware that the admiration in their relationship flowed mostly from Andrew to Fats; but Fats alone suspected that he needed Andrew more than Andrew needed him.

J.K. Rowling

#8. You're not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

J.K. Rowling

#9. You've got to work. It's about structure. It's about discipline. It's all these deadly things that your school teacher told you you needed ... You need it.
Jo speaking to Charlie Rose re: writing

J.K. Rowling

#10. It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

Lev Grossman

#11. I smoked my first cigar in 1991, when we won the championship. Up to that point, I had never smoked a cigar, never smoked anything.

Michael Jordan

#12. The spot paintings, the spin paintings, they're all a mechanical way to avoid the actual guy in a room, myself, with a blank canvas.

Damien Hirst

#13. We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.

Charles Dickens

#14. Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.

J.K. Rowling

#15. Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

J.K. Rowling

#16. I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

Gerald R. Ford

#17. Personally, I think the "Potter" books have too many adverbs and not enough sex.

Lev Grossman

#18. That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general imbecility of their lords and masters.

H.L. Mencken

#19. The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled.

Horace Mann

#20. by listening with full attention, by acknowledging his feelings with a word, by giving a name to his feelings, and by granting him his wishes in fantasy.

Adele Faber