Quotes by Jo Walton

About Jo Walton:

Jo Walton is a Welsh-Canadian fantasy and science fiction writer and poet. She won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2002 and the World Fantasy award for her novel Tooth and Claw in 2004. Her novel Ha'penny was a co-winner of the 2008 Prometheus Award. Her novel Lifelode won the 2010 Mythopoeic Award. Her novel Among Others won the 2011 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel, and is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.
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In the end, I sold my soul." he had said, and Abby had replied "That wasn’t the end.

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It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

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If you love books enough, books will love you back.

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

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The thing about Tolkien, about , is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it chang...

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I am reading . I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still sink right into it. I know no other book that is so much like going on a journey. When I put it down to this, I feel as if I am also waiting with Pippin for the echoes of...

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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 because they were the people the worlds would have produced. If you put Ged to grow up on Anarres or Shevek in Earthsea, they wou...

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books as objects are not what books , it's not what's important about them

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

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There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

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Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

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The worst of anything she could do to me would be to make me like her. That's why I ran away.

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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 time and someone who doesn't.

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Magic isn’t inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.

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You couldn’t get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you’re connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you’re not connected to anything.

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

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I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.

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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 you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

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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 and powerful. See; just like magic.

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It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things connects them to you, being in the world connects you ...

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magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

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Author Bio

  • NameJo Walton
  • DescriptionWelsh Canadian writer
  • BornDecember 1, 1964
  • CountryCanada
  • ProfessionAuthor; Novelist
  • AwardsNebula Award