Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

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

If you can imagine something, it will be.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions.

All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

I read a lot of history for fun.

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I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.

The Chechnya problem is a centuries-old problem. The thing is that today, fundamentalists and terrorists are exploiting those centuries-old problems to accomplish their own objectives that have nothing to do whatsoever with the interests of Chechnya.

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