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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

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I read a lot of history for fun.

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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

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It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

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Knowing about authors' beliefs helps you understand how those beliefs influence their writing, and things you thought meant one thing, once you've got enough information about that writer, you suddenly realize mean an entirely different thing. That makes a difference.

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I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

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I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.

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There's a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

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I read a lot of history for fun.

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I don't have time to be that girl who does the super workout. But I try to be as fit as possible, given my schedule. Even if I do 20 minutes a day, it's better than nothing.

President Obama hasn't been elected by the American people in order to be pleasant to Russia.

Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height – or to slouch.

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