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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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

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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.

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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

Nora K. Jemisin

If you can imagine something, it will be.

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.

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

Nora K. Jemisin

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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

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

Nora K. Jemisin

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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