Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.

I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.

So there’s a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode...It isn’t about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are. (interview)

I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.