--- title: "88 Jo Walton Quotes - Famous Novelist (Among Others)" description: "Quotes about Jo Walton on books, class, and reading flexibility." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jo-walton-50135.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jo-walton-50135.jpg) # Jo Walton (1964) Novelist Canada **88** quotes in **273** categories Jo Walton shares why she feels closer to the people inside books than to strangers on the street. She describes class as an invisible force that shapes behavior even though it can’t be measured. She also loves how reading can fit around chores, jobs, and any other part of the day. Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jo Walton is a novelist from Canada, best known for *Among Others*. ## Quick Facts About Jo Walton Born December 1, 1964 Nationality Canada Profession Novelist Notable works Among Others ## About Jo Walton Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She is best known for the fantasy novel Among Others, which won the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 2012, and Tooth and Claw, a Victorian-era novel with dragons which won the World Fantasy Award in 2004. Other works by Walton include the Small Change series, in which she blends alternate history with the cozy mystery genre, comprising Farthing, Ha'penny and Half a Crown. Her fantasy novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award, and her alternate history My Real Children received the 2015 Tiptree Award. ## Awards & Honors Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Q138504110 Hugo Award for Best Novel Nebula Award for Best Novel World Fantasy Award for Best Novel Astounding Award for Best New Writer Otherwise Award Copper Cylinder Award Show 2 more awards Q130820029 Robert Holdstock Award for Best Fantasy Novel ## Quotes by Jo Walton > [If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/if-i-were-omnipotent-and-omnibenevolent-i-wouldn-t-be-so-damn/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/jo-walton-7623_ineffable_if-i-were-omnipotent-and-omnibenevolent_867027.jpg) > [“This school is enough to make anyone a communist.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/this-school-is-enough-to-make-anyone-a-communist/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Communist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communist/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f7e/jo-walton-7623_communist_this-school-is-enough-to-make-anyone-a-c_1025709.jpg) > [“I'll take Heinlein over a headmistress any day.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-ll-take-heinlein-over-a-headmistress-any-day/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee3/jo-walton-7623_books_i-ll-take-heinlein-over-a-headmistress-a_3184782.jpg) > [What you can't pay back you pay forward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/what-you-can-t-pay-back-you-pay-forward/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/jo-walton-7623_debt_what-you-can-t-pay-back-you-pay-forward_2371502.jpg) > [“Sometimes I think dressing to go out is the best part of the evening.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/sometimes-i-think-dressing-to-go-out-is-the-best-part-of-the-evening/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Dressing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dressing/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaa/jo-walton-7623_fashion_sometimes-i-think-dressing-to-go-out-is_1468154.jpg) > [Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/magic-isn-t-inherently-evil-but-it-does-seem-to-be-terribly-bad-for/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Bad people](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bad-people/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a3e/jo-walton-7623_doe_magic-isn-t-inherently-evil-but-it-does_1297502.jpg) > [If you love books enough, books will love you back.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/if-you-love-books-enough-books-will-love-you-back/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78d/jo-walton-7623_book_if-you-love-books-enough-books-will-love_2437439.jpg) > [It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/it-s-wrong-for-libraries-to-have-limited-budgets/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Budgets](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/budgets/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cd3/jo-walton-7623_budgets_it-s-wrong-for-libraries-to-have-limited_2887965.jpg) > [There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-s-a-sunrise-and-a-sunset-every-single-day-and-they-re/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/jo-walton-7623_appreciate_there-s-a-sunrise-and-a-sunset-every-sin_2038790.jpg) > [“There’s something nice about out-and-out children’s books with no sex and a happy ending—Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-s-something-nice-about-out-and-out-children-s-books-with-no-sex/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/jo-walton-7623_books_there-s-something-nice-about-out-and-out_2019645.jpg) > [There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-are-some-awful-things-in-the-world-it-s-true-but-there-are-also/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd6/jo-walton-7623_awful_there-are-some-awful-things-in-the-world_1790606.jpg) > [“Doing is doing. Does it mean that it doesn't matter if it's magic or not, anything you do has power and consequences…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/doing-is-doing-does-it-mean-that-it-doesn-t-matter-if-it-s-magic-or/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/jo-walton-7623_doing_doing-is-doing-does-it-mean-that-it-does_2864203.jpg) > [“You feel what you feel, and I feel what I feel, but that doesn't mean you have to fit us into a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/you-feel-what-you-feel-and-i-feel-what-i-feel-but-that-doesn-t-mean/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/978/jo-walton-7623_feel_you-feel-what-you-feel-and-i-feel-what-i_2620915.jpg) > [“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-hate-it-when-people-imply-that-people-only-read-because-they-have/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Hate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f76/jo-walton-7623_quote_i-hate-it-when-people-imply-that-people_2121552.jpg) > [“And there's no sex, hardly any love stuff at all, in Middle Earth, which always made me think, yes, the world would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/and-there-s-no-sex-hardly-any-love-stuff-at-all-in-middle-earth-which/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b5c/jo-walton-7623_lord-of-the-rings_and-there-s-no-sex-hardly-any-love-stuff_1844602.jpg) > [“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/interlibrary-loans-are-a-wonder-of-the-world-and-a-glory-of-2/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Libraries](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/libraries/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/582/jo-walton-7623_libraries_interlibrary-loans-are-a-wonder-of-the-w_2966928.jpg) > [“This isn’t a nice story, and this isn’t an easy story. But it is a story about fairies, so feel free to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/this-isn-t-a-nice-story-and-this-isn-t-an-easy-story-but-it-is-a/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Clever](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clever/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/jo-walton-7623_clever_this-isn-t-a-nice-story-and-this-isn-t-a_1918966.jpg) > [“Harriet! I've never met anyone called Harriet in real life. I had a brief fantasy about her being Harriet Vane, because she'd…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/harriet-i-ve-never-met-anyone-called-harriet-in-real-life-i-had-a/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/jo-walton-7623_life_harriet-i-ve-never-met-anyone-called-har_2836336.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/anyway-while-most-people-can-t-see-fairies-anyway-because-they-don-t/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c8/jo-walton-7623_bad-thing_anyway-while-most-people-can-t-see-fairi_340612.jpg) > [One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/one-of-the-things-i-ve-always-liked-about-science-fiction-is-the-way/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ef/jo-walton-7623_angle_one-of-the-things-i-ve-always-liked-abou_1406782.jpg) > [“I figured it out this afternoon, when they let me take a walk around the grounds, that these cows are stupid. Bovine.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-figured-it-out-this-afternoon-when-they-let-me-take-a-walk-around/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Bovine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bovine/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c7/jo-walton-7623_bovine_i-figured-it-out-this-afternoon-when-the_31451.jpg) > [You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/you-know-class-is-like-magic-there-s-nothing-there-you-can-point-to/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/981/jo-walton-7623_behave_you-know-class-is-like-magic-there-s-not_171521.jpg) > [I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-ve-always-thought-fairies-are-like-mushrooms-you-trip-over-them/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Fairies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fairies/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a3/jo-walton-7623_fairy_i-ve-always-thought-fairies-are-like-mus_1371338.jpg) > [“What I want is much more complicated. I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-want-somebody-i-can-talk-to/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/jo-walton-7623_books_what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-w_1075369.jpg) > [Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/tolkien-understood-about-the-things-that-happen-after-the-end-because/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/jo-walton-7623_care_tolkien-understood-about-the-things-that_2576479.jpg) > [“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. I won’t know anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-that-i-will-read-it-for-the/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/jo-walton-7623_book_my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-tha_252925.jpg) > [“On the one hand, Gramma and Grampar never mentioned sex at all. They must have done it, or they wouldn’t have had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/on-the-one-hand-gramma-and-grampar-never-mentioned-sex-at-all-they/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Middle earth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/middle-earth/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59e/jo-walton-7623_middle-earth_on-the-one-hand-gramma-and-grampar-never_1012980.jpg) > [“People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-but-i-ve-found-that-writing/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/jo-walton-7623_terrible-advice_people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-b_1974967.jpg) > [“I love the train. Sitting here I feel connected to the last time I sat here, and the train to London too.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-love-the-train-sitting-here-i-feel-connected-to-the-last-time-i-sat/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Fitness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fitness/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c2b/jo-walton-7623_fitness_i-love-the-train-sitting-here-i-feel-con_2159939.jpg) > [“I'm not sure I ever want to get married. I'm neither messing around while waiting nor looking for some "real thing." What…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-m-not-sure-i-ever-want-to-get-married-i-m-neither-messing-around/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Companionship](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/companionship/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/744/jo-walton-7623_companionship_i-m-not-sure-i-ever-want-to-get-married_2032812.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-read-a-lot-of-older-children-s-books-when-i-was-a-kid-and-you/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b6b/jo-walton-7623_books_i-read-a-lot-of-older-children-s-books-w_1201543.jpg) > [“You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/you-can-almost-always-find-chains-of-coincidence-to-disprove-magic/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Coincidence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/coincidence/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a23/jo-walton-7623_magic_you-can-almost-always-find-chains-of-coi_46991.jpg) > [“Have you done anything that’s like that?” he asked. So I had to tell him. “You’re not going to like it. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/have-you-done-anything-that-s-like-that-he-asked-so-i-had-to-tell-him/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e3f/jo-walton-7623_books_have-you-done-anything-that-s-like-that_3011185.jpg) > [“Are you a god, then?" Sokrates asked. "What is a god?" Ikaros threw back instantly. They both sat up and leaned forward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/are-you-a-god-then-sokrates-asked-what-is-a-god-ikaros-threw-back/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Gods](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gods/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6f/jo-walton-7623_gods_are-you-a-god-then-sokrates-asked-what-i_2829348.jpg) > [“It wasn't that we didn't know history. Even if you only count the real world, we knew more history than most people.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/it-wasn-t-that-we-didn-t-know-history-even-if-you-only-count-the-real/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Family](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/030/jo-walton-7623_family_it-wasn-t-that-we-didn-t-know-history-ev_2660429.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-that-you-can-tell-what-s-going/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/jo-walton-7623_different-ways_the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-t_847348.jpg) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world-those-who-re-read-and/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/jo-walton-7623_books_there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-wor_465017.jpg) > [“At home I walked through a haze of belongings that knew, at least vaguely, who they belonged to. Grampar’s chair resented anyone…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/at-home-i-walked-through-a-haze-of-belongings-that-knew-at-least/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Magic](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/magic/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/67b/jo-walton-7623_magic_at-home-i-walked-through-a-haze-of-belon_1502476.jpg) > [“I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself, on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-did-not-buy-a-book-called-lord-foul-s-bane-by-stephen-donaldson/) [Jo Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/jo-walton-7623_books_i-did-not-buy-a-book-called-lord-foul-s_2073015.jpg) > [All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own 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I want somebody I can talk to about books, who would be my friend, and why couldn’t we have sex as well if we wanted to? (And used contraception.)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-want-somebody-i-can-talk-to/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/jo-walton-7623_books_what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-w_1075369.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/jo-walton-7623_books_what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-w_1075369.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8bd/jo-walton-7623_books_what-i-want-is-much-more-complicated-i-w_1075369.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What I want is much more complicated. 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And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/tolkien-understood-about-the-things-that-happen-after-the-end-because/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/jo-walton-7623_care_tolkien-understood-about-the-things-that_2576479.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/jo-walton-7623_care_tolkien-understood-about-the-things-that_2576479.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b70/jo-walton-7623_care_tolkien-understood-about-the-things-that_2576479.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. 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I won’t know anything whatsoever about it, it will be wonderful, it will be exciting and layered and complex and I will be excited by it, and I will re-read it every year or so for the rest of my life, discovering more about it every time, and every time remembering the circumstances in which I first read it.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-that-i-will-read-it-for-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/jo-walton-7623_book_my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-tha_252925.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/jo-walton-7623_book_my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-tha_252925.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/06b/jo-walton-7623_book_my-ideal-relationship-with-a-book-is-tha_252925.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“My ideal relationship with a book is that I will read it for the first time entirely unspoiled. 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The fairies are real, though.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-but-i-ve-found-that-writing/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/jo-walton-7623_terrible-advice_people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-b_1974967.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/jo-walton-7623_terrible-advice_people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-b_1974967.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c68/jo-walton-7623_terrible-advice_people-tell-you-to-write-what-you-know-b_1974967.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“People tell you to write what you know, but I've found that writing what you know is much harder than making…” — Jo Walton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 29, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I love the train. 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I did a magic to find me friends.” He actually recoiled, almost knocking his chair over. “And you think it worked?” “The day after, Greg invited me to the book group.” I let that hang there while he filled in the implications for himself. “But we’d been meeting for months already. You just … found us.” “I hope so,” I said. “But I didn’t know anything about it before. I’d never seen any indication of it, or of fandom either.” I looked at him. He was rarer than a unicorn, a beautiful boy in a red-checked shirt who read and thought and talked about books. How much of his life had my magic touched, to make him what he was? Had he even existed before? Or what had he been? There’s no knowing, no way to know. He was here now, and I was, and that was all. “But I was there,” he said. “I was going to it. I know it was there. I was at Seacon in Brighton last summer.” “Er’ perrhenne,” I said, with my best guess at pronunciation. I am used to people being afraid of me, but I don’t really like it. 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But…” — Jo Walton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 34, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Are you a god, then?\" Sokrates asked. \"What is a god?\" Ikaros threw back instantly. They both sat up and leaned forward eagerly. Sokrates looked like, well, a philosopher. Ikaros was, frankly, gorgeous, more gorgeous than even Jathery pretending to be Hermes, because he was more mature. But there was no question he was a philosopher too, with that avidity in his face, twin to Sokrates's own. \"None of my old definitions will work, unless we allow that you and Porphyry and Athene are some other kind of being, and that there are unchanging unseeking perfect gods that are different,\" Sokrates said. \"The One,\" Ikaros said. \"And I used the word angels in the New Concordance, for those other kinds of being. But perfection is a dynamic attribute.\" \"How can it be? The nature of perfection--\" \"Perfect things can become more perfect, endlessly.\"\"Excellence, yes, but perfection implies completeness.\" Porphyry and I looked past them and smiled at each other. There was something satisfying to the soul in the way they so immediately became utterly absorbed in the argument. Sokrates caught the smile as Ikaros becan to explain the nature of dynamic perfection, which was exactly the kind of abstraction Ikarians and Psycheans love. \"Wait,\" he said. \"We're arguing with each other when we have an expert here.\" \"I'm not an expert,\" Porphyry said, throwing up his hands. \"But you admit you are a god?\" \"Yes...\" Porphyry admitted, tentatively. \"Then you must know what a god is,\" Sokrates said, with a brisk nod. \"Please enlighten us.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/are-you-a-god-then-sokrates-asked-what-is-a-god-ikaros-threw-back/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6f/jo-walton-7623_gods_are-you-a-god-then-sokrates-asked-what-i_2829348.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6f/jo-walton-7623_gods_are-you-a-god-then-sokrates-asked-what-i_2829348.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a6f/jo-walton-7623_gods_are-you-a-god-then-sokrates-asked-what-i_2829348.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Are you a god, then?\" Sokrates asked. \"What is a god?\" Ikaros threw back instantly. 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You can tell different stories about human nature when you can compare it to android nature, or alien nature. You can examine it in different ways when you can write about people living for two hundred years, or being relativistically separated, or under a curse. You have more colours for your palette, more lights to illuminate your scene.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-that-you-can-tell-what-s-going/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/jo-walton-7623_different-ways_the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-t_847348.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/jo-walton-7623_different-ways_the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-t_847348.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/494/jo-walton-7623_different-ways_the-trouble-with-mimetic-fiction-isn-t-t_847348.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The trouble with mimetic fiction isn’t that you can tell what’s going to happen (I defy anyone to guess…” — Jo Walton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 37, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“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 than two kinds of people in the world. There are even people who don’t read at all. (What do they think about on buses?) But there are two kinds of readers in the world, though, those who re-read and those who don’t. Sometimes people who don’t re-read look at me oddly when I mention that I do. “There are so many books,” they say, “and so little time. If I live to be a mere Methuselah of 800, and read a book a week for 800 years, I will only have the chance to read 40,000 books, and my readpile is already 90,000 and starting to topple! If I re-read, why, I’ll never get through the new ones.” This is in fact true, they never will. And my readpile is also, well, let’s just say it’s pretty large, and that’s just the pile of unread books in my house, not the list of books I’d theoretically like to read someday, many of which have not even been written yet.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-world-those-who-re-read-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/jo-walton-7623_books_there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-wor_465017.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/jo-walton-7623_books_there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-wor_465017.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52b/jo-walton-7623_books_there-are-two-kinds-of-people-in-the-wor_465017.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who re-read and those who don’t. 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They were made of silver, and they knew themselves superior to everything else and special. None of these things did anything. The coffee spoons didn’t stir the coffee without being held or anything. They didn’t have conversations with the sugar tongs about who was the most cherished. I suppose what they really did was physiological. 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The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings , is that it's perfect.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/i-did-not-buy-a-book-called-lord-foul-s-bane-by-stephen-donaldson/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/jo-walton-7623_books_i-did-not-buy-a-book-called-lord-foul-s_2073015.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/jo-walton-7623_books_i-did-not-buy-a-book-called-lord-foul-s_2073015.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab1/jo-walton-7623_books_i-did-not-buy-a-book-called-lord-foul-s_2073015.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I did not buy a book called Lord Foul's Bane by Stephen Donaldson, which has the temerity to compare itself…” — Jo Walton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 40, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jo Walton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jo-walton/all-farms-are-much-alike-everywhere-and-all-wild-places-have-their/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03a/jo-walton-7623_farms_all-farms-are-much-alike-everywhere-and_1606904.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03a/jo-walton-7623_farms_all-farms-are-much-alike-everywhere-and_1606904.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/03a/jo-walton-7623_farms_all-farms-are-much-alike-everywhere-and_1606904.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.” — Jo Walton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/#person", "name": "Jo Walton", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/", "image": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jo-walton-50135.jpg" }, { "@type": "ProfilePage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/", "name": "Jo Walton", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/#person" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee7/jo-walton-7623_ineffable_if-i-were-omnipotent-and-omnibenevolent_867027.jpg" }, "description": "Quotes about Jo Walton on books, class, and reading flexibility.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Authors", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/authors/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Jo Walton", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jo-walton/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```