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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; Among Others is one of only seven novels to have been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. December 1964  •  Other names Джо Волтон
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Works

Among Others
Among Others
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Tooth and Claw
Farthing
Farthing
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Among Others
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Tooth and Claw
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Famous Jo Walton Quotes

“I'll belong to libraries wherever I go. Maybe eventually I'll belong to libraries on other planets.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“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 Among Others

Source: Among Others

“Bibliotropic," Hugh said. "Like sunflowers are heliotropic, they naturally turn towards the sun. We naturally turn towards the bookshop.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“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.”

Jo Walton

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

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

Jo Walton Quotes about the world

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

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world—which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”

Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 2, section 7 (p. 28)

Jo Walton Quotes

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

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.”

Jo Walton

“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.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.”

Jo Walton book Among Others

Source: Among Others

“Marrying her to prove I do not subscribe to an outdated convention of class would be just as foolish as refusing to marry her because I did.”

Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 9, section 33 (p. 142)

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

Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 7, section 27 (p. 118)

“What you can't pay back you pay forward.”

Jo Walton book Farthing

Source: Farthing (2006), Chapter 27

““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.”

Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 15, section 56 (p. 260)

“There is one law for rich and poor alike, which prevents them equally from stealing bread and sleeping under bridges.”

Jo Walton book Farthing

Cf. Anatole France, Le Lys Rouge [The Red Lily] (1894), ch. 7: La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. (The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.)
Source: Farthing (2006), Chapter 18

“It was only now that they realized that there is nothing that can really be a preparation for death.”

Jo Walton book Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw (2003), Chapter 2, section 7 (p. 29)

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