Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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.

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 the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

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

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

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.

If you can imagine something, it will be.

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.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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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