Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

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.

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.

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.

I read a lot of history for fun.

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.

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've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

If you can imagine something, it will be.

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

A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.

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

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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.

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

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Roosevelt was determined to stop Stalin from taking over Eastern Europe. He thought they finally had an agreement on Poland. Before Roosevelt died, he realized that Stalin had broken his agreement.

I love listening to people talking about their love, and it always gives me great energy.

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