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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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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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.

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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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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.

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

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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.

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I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

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

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

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I read a lot of history for fun.

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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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