This was what I’d asked her to give me. I had no right to complain just because it wasn’t what I wanted to hear. - N. K. Jemisin

…You’re still putting a pretty hefty mental commitment into making a short story. Even though it’s relatively brief, you still have to come up with a world that’s coherent. I find short stories almost as difficult to write as novels, it’s just less time-consuming. Short stories are hard for me. That’s why the collection is something like fifteen years worth of short stories. They asked me to write several new ones for the collection and I was just like, Not likely to happen. In fact, I can really only write them when I’m between novels because they take away from whatever energy I’m trying to pour into a novel.

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

There is no logic to grief.