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Jo Walton Quotes - Page 2

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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 true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that

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 true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.

Growing Up, Reading, Book

Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Glasses, World, Landscape

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 is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.

Sunset, Thinking, Lasts

Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.60, Macmillan

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

Omnipotence, Ineffable, Damn

Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.111, Macmillan

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 would be the same people, the backgrounds made the people, which of course you see all the time in mainstream fiction, but it's rare in SF.

Growing Up, Real, People

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

Wild Places, Farms

Jo Walton (2003). “Tooth and Claw”, p.139, Macmillan

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

Book, Love You, Enough

Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.300, Macmillan

I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.

Thinking, Dragons, Needs

Jo Walton (2013). “Tooth and Claw”, p.137, Hachette UK

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