Nora K. Jemisin Quotes Nora K. Jemisin There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse. Black Color Field Groups Know Particularly Black Fiction People Recourse Same Selfpublished Stuff Stuff
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
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. Nora K. Jemisin
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't. Nora K. Jemisin
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. 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
I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. 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
It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing. Nora K. Jemisin
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur. Nora K. Jemisin
Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. W. Averell Harriman
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
I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff. Vladimir Putin
I'm not successful in Hollywood, and I probably would never be. I think Hollywood has such an interesting model for success, and it creates those successful people. I'm not in that chosen category, but what is successful for me is that, in spite of that, I've been able to work and do the things that I wrote down that I wanted to do and be. C. C. H. Pounder