Home
Topics
Authors
Profession
Zodiac Signs

Home
Topics
Authors
Profession
Zodiac Signs

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.

Battle Everything Just Love Political Political Battle Say Turn Write

More Related Quotes

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

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

Nora K. Jemisin

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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

Nora K. Jemisin

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

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

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

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

Quotes of the Hour

I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.

Alan Alexander Milne

It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.

I would prefer to abandon the terminology of the past. 'Superpower' is something which we used during the cold war time. Why use it now?

Peruvian food is so simple yet amazingly flavored with their traditional spices.

Popular Topics

Always Anything Believe Best Blues Day Doing Everything Feel First Good I Am Know Life Like Look Lot Love Me More Music Myself Never One Own People Play Russia Something Song Songs Things Think Time Try Trying Up Us Want Way Will Work World Years You

Copyright © 2026 Epigrammatic Ltd. All rights reserved.

Home
Topics
Authors
Profession
Zodiac Signs

Privacy Policy
Terms of Use
Copyright
Contact Us