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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

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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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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.

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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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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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Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

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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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If you can imagine something, it will be.

Nora K. Jemisin

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

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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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