“The trouble with mimetic fiction isn’t that you can tell what’s going to happen (I defy anyone to guess what’s going to happen in Middlemarch, even from halfway through) but that you can tell what’s not going to happen. There… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You… — Jo Walton Copy Share
“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 far more… — Jo Walton Copy Share
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… — Jo Walton Copy Share
