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The difficult task is not to become successful, but to remain oneself throughout the process


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J. K. ROWLING It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
N. K. JEMISIN Within the sphere of steampunk, there seems to be a rapidly growing subsphere of gadgetless 'neo...
N. K. JEMISIN I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem s...
N. K. JEMISIN With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is...
N. K. JEMISIN It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a...
N. K. JEMISIN It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and ...
N. K. JEMISIN Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, techn...
N. K. JEMISIN I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
N. K. JEMISIN As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The stat...
N. K. JEMISIN Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can b...
N. K. JEMISIN This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic,...
N. K. JEMISIN Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are st...
N. K. JEMISIN I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my liv...
J. K. SIMMONS Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Please. Put the gun down and we'll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my...
SHARON K. GARNER Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she...
SHARON K. GARNER