Nora K. Jemisin Quotes Nora K. Jemisin If you can imagine something, it will be. Imagine Something Will You
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. Nora K. Jemisin
I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle. Nora K. Jemisin
I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous. 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
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
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
There's a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas. Nora K. Jemisin
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. Nora K. Jemisin
Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear. B. B King
I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum. L'Wren Scott
When I listen to 'Nevermind,' I hate the production, but there's something about it that almost makes me cry at times. Kurt Cobain
Poland, of course, was the key country. I remember Stalin telling me that the plains of Poland were the invasion route of Europe to Russia and always had been, and therefore he had to control Poland. W. Averell Harriman
You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love. Zac Brown
Nora K. Jemisin
B. B King
L'Wren Scott
Kurt Cobain
W. Averell Harriman
Zac Brown