172 Quotes by Jo Walton

Maybe some of the masters really believed they could make it work, but I think what they really wanted wasn’t to do it themselves but for somebody else to have made it real and for them to have been born there.

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 attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean – reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

She turned into a tree. It was a Mystery. It must have been. Nothing else made sense, because I didn’t understand it.

And at year’s end they broke the stable door. The man and his horse, together, gallop yet, Beyond the sunset’s end, the pounding hooves, Both harmony and beat for their duet.

I wish magic was more dramatic.

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.

Peace is better than war. There’s too much glorification of war and not enough glorification of peace, and especially not enough glorification of the importance of the doves.

Writers are not nice people. We can’t be.

Let’s pursue excellence together. Let’s make art. Let’s build the future. Let’s be our best selves.