Jo Walton

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

— Jo Walton

Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real…

— Jo Walton

“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine.…

— Jo Walton

“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

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

— Jo Walton

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that…

— Jo Walton

You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but…

— Jo Walton

“The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die…

— Jo Walton

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

— Jo Walton

“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

“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…

— Jo Walton

“Aujourd’hui, rien. That’s what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.”

— Jo Walton

If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider…

— Jo Walton

“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

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

“A rose, with the motto Dum spiro spero , which actually I rather like—while I breathe I shall hope.”

— Jo Walton

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

— Jo Walton

Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.

— Jo Walton

“They hang people for murder, and while I didn't exactly like Mummy, she was my mother after all. Though do they hang…

— Jo Walton

“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…

— Jo Walton

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

— Jo Walton

Peace means something different from 'not fighting'. Those aren't peace advocates, they're 'stop fighting' advocates. Peace is an active and complex thing…

— Jo Walton

“I couldn’t be anything. I could barely manage to hold out my shape in the world.”

— Jo Walton

“You don’t get a lot of chance to talk to people about things that matter to you, do you?” she asked.”

— Jo Walton

“On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn’t have had…

— Jo Walton