{"author":"Jo Walton","author_id":"Jo+Walton","total_quotes":44,"quotes":[{"text":"What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["choice","freedom","governance"],"id":9787,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give it to libraries. What good does an independent nuclear deterrent do Britain, compared to the good of libraries?","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["books","cold-war","libraries","nuclear-disarmament","the-80s"],"id":46476,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["change","fear","responsibility"],"id":53846,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["excellence"],"id":68719,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["books","magic"],"id":79538,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"If you love books enough, books will love you back.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["books","love","reading"],"id":83801,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"In a science fiction novel, the world is a character, and often the most important character.In a mainstream novel, the world is implicitly our world, and the characters are the world.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["character","place"],"id":102940,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"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.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["libraries"],"id":103678,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["appreciation","beauty","health","worry"],"id":107655,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"},{"text":"Magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.","author":"Jo Walton","tags":["effect","magic","past"],"id":118608,"author_id":"Jo+Walton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":44,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}