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" I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous. "
N. K. Jemisin
Stay
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" I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes. "
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" I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions. "
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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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" Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. "
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" 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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Magic
World
" It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing. "
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Practice
Doing
" Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on. "
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Burn
Catch
" Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't. "
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Magic
" I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle. "
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Battle
Turn
Just
" I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. "
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Most
Interesting
Uncomfortable
" I tend to write society as I see and understand it. "
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See
Understand
Write
" 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. "
N. K. Jemisin
Me
Audience
Move
" I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways. "
N. K. Jemisin
Ways
Am
I Am
" 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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Thinking
Events
Enough
" In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate. "
N. K. Jemisin
Love
Hate
Chance
" I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine. "
N. K. Jemisin
Strange
Choose
Focus
" A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. "
N. K. Jemisin
Almost
Black
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" 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. "
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Technological
People
Events
" All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish. "
N. K. Jemisin
Horror
Age
Science
" 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. "
N. K. Jemisin
People
Think
Who
" 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. "
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Tell
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Best
" Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted? "
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Healing
Wounds
Reconciliation
" 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. "
N. K. Jemisin
Ideas
American
Culture
" 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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Fantasy
Conservative
Out
" I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too! "
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Write
People
Other
" 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. "
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Research
Art
Believe
" I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history. "
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Experience
Real
Own
" If you can imagine something, it will be. "
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You
Will
Imagine
" 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. "
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You
Need
People
" 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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