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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

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.

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

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It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

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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'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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Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

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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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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.

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

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When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.

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