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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

I write for myself – but it is nice when other people like it, too!

Like Myself Nice People Too Write

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To some degree, as I move outside of the exclusive genre audience, the exclusive genre issues don't bother me as much. Maybe that's just speculation.

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Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

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If you can imagine something, it will be.

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Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.

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In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

Nora K. Jemisin

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

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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.

Nora K. Jemisin

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

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