Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

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.

I read a lot of history for fun.

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.

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

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story.

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.

If you can imagine something, it will be.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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.

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

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

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Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

I used to play – when I first started trying to be professional, I disk jockey from 1949 to 1955 in Memphis, Tennessee, and I was quite popular there as a disk jockey.

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

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