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
I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine. Nora K. Jemisin
When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale. Nora K. Jemisin
All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. Nora K. Jemisin
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. Nora K. Jemisin
Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness. Nora K. Jemisin
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. Nora K. Jemisin
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story. Nora K. Jemisin
Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted? Nora K. Jemisin
Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on. Nora K. Jemisin
You have to let the world speak to you and then you speak, you know, so I'm in that moment now where I'm finding the world's voice. K'naan
I've always tried to defend the idea that the blues doesn't have to be sung by a person who comes from Mississippi, as I did. B. B King
I still get rejections – frequently – and my goal isn't to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don't. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection. Victoria Elizabeth Schwab
I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me 'Enter the 36th Chambers.' It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it's hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos. G-Dragon
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