Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

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.

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.

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

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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

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.

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.

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

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

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

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.

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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.

I swim almost every day, a thousand meters.

If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies – it will fall apart on its own.

I think we should not control the Internet.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

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