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
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
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
My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences. 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
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. Nora K. Jemisin
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. Nora K. Jemisin
Russia is opposed to the proliferation of mass destruction weapons, including nuclear weapons, and in this context we call upon our Iranian friends to abandon the uranium enrichment programme. Vladimir Putin
The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing. Vladimir Putin
The Eurasian union is a project meant to preserve the identities of nations and the historic Eurasian community in the new century, in a new world. Vladimir Putin
Americans wanted to settle all our difficulties with Russia and then go to the movies and drink Coke. W. Averell Harriman