“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who re-read and those who don’t. No, don’t be silly, there are… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“It’s the books I love best that are the hardest to write about. I don’t want to take one angle on them,… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I read a lot of older children's books when I was a kid, and you wouldn't believe how many sugar-coated tracts I… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books.… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“A re-read is more leisurely than a first read. I know the plot, after all, I know what happens. I may still… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“There’s something nice about out-and-out children’s books with no sex and a happy ending—Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself, on the… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“When I re-read, I know what I'm getting. It's like revisiting an old friend. An unread book holds wonderful unknown promise, but… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Have you done anything that’s like that?” he asked. So I had to tell him. “You’re not going to like it. But… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine. I knew… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything whatsoever about… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Anyway, while most people can't see fairies anyway because they don't believe in them, seeing them isn't a bad thing. Some of the most… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
