American - Writer | September 19, 1972 -
I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.
N. K. Jemisin
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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.
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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.
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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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If you can imagine something, it will be.
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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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