Jo Walton Quotes

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• Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Heart, Mean

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

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• It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Writing, Long

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.25, Macmillan

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• There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

  Jo Walton

  Love, Appreciation, Nature

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• There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

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  Book, Awful, World

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan

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• If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.

  Jo Walton

  Mean, Perspective, Robots

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• Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing and sometimes fighting is part of what it takes to get it.

  Jo Walton

  Mean, Fighting, Different

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• I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot when you're searching for them.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Mushrooms, Fairy

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.37, Macmillan

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• Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

  Jo Walton

  Sunflower, Said, Turns

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.154, Macmillan

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• Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

  Jo Walton

  Civilization, World, Wonder

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

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• Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

  Jo Walton

  Attitude, Reading, Earning

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• The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Journey, Perfect

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.103, Macmillan

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• Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.

  Jo Walton

  Religious, Dragons, Church

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.41, Macmillan

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• What you can't pay back you pay forward.

  Jo Walton

  Debt, Pay

  Jo Walton (2006). “Farthing”, p.165, Macmillan

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• I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

  Jo Walton

  Book, People, Care

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

  Jo Walton

  People, Evil, Magic

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• You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Magic, Special

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.93, Macmillan

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• It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

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  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.34, Macmillan

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• There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Fall, Over You

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.89, Macmillan

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• I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.169, Macmillan

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• I do not miss my toys. I wouldn't play with them anyway. I am fifteen. I miss my childhood.

  Jo Walton

  Play, Childhood, Missing

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.160, Macmillan

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• All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

  Jo Walton

  Wild Places, Farms

  Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.139, Macmillan

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• Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's pervasive and powerful. See; just like magic.

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  Powerful, Real, Class

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.66, Macmillan

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• I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Dragons, Needs

  Jo Walton (2013). “Tooth and Claw”, p.137, Hachette UK

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• It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

  Jo Walton

  Library, Budgets

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• You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen.

  Jo Walton

  Real, Class, People

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.64, Macmillan

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