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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

I read a lot of history for fun.

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

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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

Nora K. Jemisin

Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

Nora K. Jemisin

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

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.

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

My first series, the 'Inheritance' trilogy, in the first book, you were dealing with a woman of color from an impoverished culture, being brought up among wealthy, privileged white people and having to cope and perform in ways that she has not been raised to do, and that was obviously drawn from some personal experiences.

Nora K. Jemisin

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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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

Overall, Korean pop serves as the foundation of my musical upbringing. As a result, the melodies that I create just exude that type of vibe.

Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement… let me go upstairs and check.

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My parents told me that children were taken from their families in 1941, and my mother had a child taken from her – with the goal of saving him.

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