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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

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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.

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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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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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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.

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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.

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I read a lot of history for fun.

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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.

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

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Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

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I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.

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