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• I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of that stone down the well.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.235, Macmillan

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• I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

  Jo Walton

  Growing Up, Real, People

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• If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

  Jo Walton

  Omnipotence, Ineffable, Damn

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.111, Macmillan

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• Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.

  Jo Walton

  Sunset, Thinking, Lasts

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.60, Macmillan

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• I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.

  Jo Walton

  Growing Up, Reading, Book

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• One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

  Jo Walton

  Thinking, Make You Think, Looks

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

  Jo Walton

  Glasses, World, Landscape

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• If you love books enough, books will love you back.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Love You, Enough

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.300, Macmillan

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