Jo Walton Quotes

She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying t...

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone wh...

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and...

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

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

My mother was a pathetic patchwork witch who had used magic so much to meddle in her own life that s...

There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, ...

They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give ...

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

I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever ...

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

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...

The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Gra...

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, an...

It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes th...

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

On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they woul...

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

It’s lovely when writers I like like each other.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and soph...

This school is enough to make anyone a communist.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen...

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

I'm only fifteen. I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting ...

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things...

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen...

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

I'm so glad I have my own copy. I can read them again and again. I can read them again and again on ...

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

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonde...

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

You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, ...

I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the...

In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self mean...

I hate those Socratic dialogues where everything gets drawn out at the pace of an excessively logica...

In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

what's real within the story is real within the story

What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What...

In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a ma...

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that i...