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
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
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. Nora K. Jemisin
I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so. 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
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
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
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
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. 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
I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too. Zac Brown
I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States. Vladimir Putin
The thing with me is, about that – about rock and all that – years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that. D'Angelo