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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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

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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.

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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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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

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This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

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

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

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

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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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