Book Quote by Jo Walton Download Open image “You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.” — Jo Walton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Copies Magic Special
“Is magic common in librarians?" "Oh, yes. Anyone who touches a book has more than a little magic brush off on them. And if… — Devon Monk Copy Share Image
“It is not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books...take it where you can find it, in old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“Books are a form of magic—” the doctor lifted the volume he had just laid on the stack, “—because they span time and distance… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance,… — Obert Skye 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
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 Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
