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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

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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.

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

Nora K. Jemisin

I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.

Nora K. Jemisin

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

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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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