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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

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

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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

Nora K. Jemisin

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

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

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

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

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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.

Nora K. Jemisin

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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