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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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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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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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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.

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I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

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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 am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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.

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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 write for myself – but it is nice when other people like it, too!

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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.

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