Nora K. Jemisin Quotes Nora K. Jemisin I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good. Art Artist Contact Good Lot Need People Writer You
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
Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted? 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
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. Nora K. Jemisin
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. 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
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. 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
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. Nora K. Jemisin
If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food. Zac Brown
The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine. Vladimir Putin