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 More Quotes by Jo Walton More Quotes From Jo Walton 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 reading heart book 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. Jo Walton growing-up real people I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal. Jo Walton reading mean thinking 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 make-you-think looks thinking 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 powerful real class Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Jo Walton wonder civilization world I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day. Jo Walton care book people It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets. Jo Walton budgets library If you love books enough, books will love you back. Jo Walton enough love-you book The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, 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 changes everything. Jo Walton reading journey perfect If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable. Jo Walton omnipotence ineffable damn You know, class is like magic. There's nothing there you can point to, it evaporates if you try to analyse it, but it's real and it affects how people behave and makes things happen. Jo Walton real class people
