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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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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.

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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've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

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

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A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.

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