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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction. "

" It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing. "

" Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting. "

" 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. "

" Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo-Victorian' novels, most of which attempt to recapture the romance of the era without all the sociopolitical ugliness. "

" 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. "

" I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions. "

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

" 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. "

" It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode. "

" I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways. "