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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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

Fiction Focuses Interesting Most Think Uncomfortable Uncomfortable Settings

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Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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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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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

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I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

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

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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.

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

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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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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

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