Jo Walton Quotes

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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.…
• If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
• If you love books enough, books will love you back.
• There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
• I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
• It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.
• Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.
• There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.
• 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…
• 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…

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