Jo Walton Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Heart, Mean

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

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

  Jo Walton

  Book, Writing, Long

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.25, Macmillan

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

  Jo Walton

  Book, Love You, Enough

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

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

  Jo Walton

  Book, People, Care

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.119, Macmillan

• There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Awful, World

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan

• 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.

  Jo Walton

  Growing Up, Reading, Book

• I am reading The Lord of the Rings. 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 that stone down the well.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Reading, Heart

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.235, Macmillan

• There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

  Jo Walton

  Book, Fall, Over You

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.89, Macmillan

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

  Jo Walton

  Book, Magic, Special

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.93, Macmillan

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