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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

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

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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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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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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.

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

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It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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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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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.

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