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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

I write for myself – but it is nice when other people like it, too!

Like Myself Nice People Too Write

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

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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

Nora K. Jemisin

I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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I was so tall and so skinny – I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?'

I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male – or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.

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I'm writing from a place of – a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.

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